Shawn Coyne
Autor de The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know
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Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: And Other Tough-Love Truths to Make You a Better Writer (2016) — Editor — 125 copias
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Had a lot of promise then kind of falls apart by the end. Later chapters have quite a bit of self-contradictory statements and poor copy editing and the whole "oh by the way this is a tool not a formula" thing feels like an afterthought. Worth a read but probably not as game changing as you might hope. A lot of what might be useful suggestions (e.g. obligatory scenes) are mainly only useful to the thriller writer due to the obsessive focus on The Silence of the Lambs as the example.
While there is some good stuff in this book, ironically it could have really used an editor. He keeps telling us about this great tool he uses (the story grid), and then doesn’t actually get to it until page 289. Lots of meandering, but he also drops some wisdom along the way.
Shawn posted the content of this book free on his website-www.storygrid.com. I read along as he posted immediately enamored of the process he was working us through. I'd struggled with revising and editing my WIP and found The Story Grid's intense focus on structure liberating. I finally had a detailed method for uncovering what is working, what isn't and, even more important-how to fix it.
This is destined to be a must-read for serious novelists.
This is destined to be a must-read for serious novelists.
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I picked this book up to better understand the story archetypes (hero's journey, boy meets girl, and so on), so I could incorporate structure into the anecdotes I tell. Because this book is so much about genre fiction, it doesn't really deliver on that goal. But as a framework for thinking rationally about what makes stories tick, this book was very valuable, and it's sticky -- its teachings keep coming back to me as I read new books now. I'm not sure I want to think rationally about the craft of stories, though; it takes some of the magic away.… (más)