The Art and Craft of Story Architecture
Story structure is the sequence of your scenes that result in a story well told.
Story architecture is the empowerment of those scenes through compelling characterizations, powerful thematic intentions, a fresh and intriguing conceptual engine and a writing voice brings it all to life with personality and energy.
Structure is craft. It can be studied, learned, practiced and implemented. It is not talent-dependent (talent being a relative and elusive term), it is effort-dependent andknowledge-dependent.
Architecture is art. It, too, can be studied, learned, emulated and implemented. It istalent-dependent, with the acknowledgement that talent itself can be cultivated and evolved through learning and practice.
Not every writer is born to be John Updike. But every writer can bring architecture to their story, provided they open themselves to it. Provided they don’t ascribe to thethere-are-no-rules school of writing and immerse themselves in the proven truths that successful writers validate on every shelf in every bookstore you’ve ever been in.
Story architecture, in this sense, is what separates a story from the crowd. It is the differentiator between non-published and published writing.
Gravity sucks. Always has, always will. And that’s not a bad thing.
Especially when you think of it this way: gravity is what empowers us to dance.
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