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A review by abigcoffeedragon
Story Physics: Harnessing the Underlying Forces of Storytelling by Larry Brooks
2.0
This was no where near as informative and inspiring as the first book, Story Engineering.
This book references his first book many times, and mentions the 6 elements of story physics, but, I could not repeat them back to you for the life of me.
This also uses chapter after chapter to let you know, that at the end of this book (Chapter 24), he goes into great detail breaking down The Hunger Games (Chapter 24), which while that may or may not do it for you, this should be about teaching the reader what you mean by Story physics.
Instead we got countless references to others movies and novels (Chapter 24) without any real understanding of what the author means by Story physics. Even when you did reach the often mentioned CHAPTER 24, there is no explanation for what the parts are, and he basically explains every scene, giving the reader Cliff Notes to the Hunger Games, instead of insight.
And, he mentions constantly, does the author do this intentionally? We don't know. But it fits.
So, you don't know, you assume, you praise, but without any real grasp of the author's approach. I would rather have seen the physics in action, even if in a lame small story scale, to understand, instead of being forced to analyse the Hunger Games without knowing what physics are in play. I get to see the six core competences again, but I already knew those.
This book references his first book many times, and mentions the 6 elements of story physics, but, I could not repeat them back to you for the life of me.
This also uses chapter after chapter to let you know, that at the end of this book (Chapter 24), he goes into great detail breaking down The Hunger Games (Chapter 24), which while that may or may not do it for you, this should be about teaching the reader what you mean by Story physics.
Instead we got countless references to others movies and novels (Chapter 24) without any real understanding of what the author means by Story physics. Even when you did reach the often mentioned CHAPTER 24, there is no explanation for what the parts are, and he basically explains every scene, giving the reader Cliff Notes to the Hunger Games, instead of insight.
And, he mentions constantly, does the author do this intentionally? We don't know. But it fits.
So, you don't know, you assume, you praise, but without any real grasp of the author's approach. I would rather have seen the physics in action, even if in a lame small story scale, to understand, instead of being forced to analyse the Hunger Games without knowing what physics are in play. I get to see the six core competences again, but I already knew those.