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See How Stories Work
The most compelling stories move us emotionally. Up and down, between hope and fear, in ways we don't always expect—but that you can harness as a writer, editor, and critic. This book shows you how to track, map, and understand the rhythm of a story. Whether you're writing or rewriting, editing a manuscript or dismantling your favorite television episode, Beating the Story helps you understand how stories get hammered into shape.

Beating the Story combines Laws' insightful and articulate analysis of story beats with all-new transition beats and icons to do for fiction and screenplays what his Hamlet's Hit Points did for narrative games. Read it and see how to map, understand, and elevate any narrative. Foreword by John Rogers!

How Is This Book Different from Hamlet's Hit Points?
First, while Hamlet's Hit Points is a book about roleplaying games for gamemasters and players of roleplaying games, Beating the Story is for writers of fiction across all forms, including screenplays, prose fiction, comics, and stage drama.

Second, Beating the Story introduces a new type of beat element that describes the transitions between scenes, in addition to the type and emotional direction of each beat. Finally, Beating the Story provides substantially more practical advice on how to use the story beat system when you're writing and creating.

The book features four extended analyses (Maupassant's "The Necklace," the Mad Men episode "Have a Seat, Shut the Door," the X-Files episode "Home," and a scene from The Color Purple), but the majority of its content — more than 75% of its page count — consists of practical guidance on topics like conceiving your story, considering its hero, mapping its beats, writing drafts, revising, and even editing and giving notes on the work of others.

Written by Robin D. Laws
6x9 inches
220 pages, softcover