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    Rapid Story Development #2: Bust the Top Ten Creative Writing Myths to Become a Better Writer: Rapid Story Development, #2
    Rapid Story Development #2: Bust the Top Ten Creative Writing Myths to Become a Better Writer: Rapid Story Development, #2
    Rapid Story Development #2: Bust the Top Ten Creative Writing Myths to Become a Better Writer: Rapid Story Development, #2
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    Rapid Story Development #2: Bust the Top Ten Creative Writing Myths to Become a Better Writer: Rapid Story Development, #2

    By Jeff Lyons

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    The world of how-to creative writing is filled with quick fixes, flavor-of-the-month techniques, and fortune cookie wisdom. This e-book has compiled the top ten creative writing myths that may writers accept as gospel, and then describes each of the myths to show you that they are not just innocent memes, but rather destructive and potentially derailing traps that can cripple your writing and stunt you as a creative person. This book does not just expose the top myths, it also offers practical advice on how you can take back your creative power and bust each of these myths so they will never have power over you again. This e-book is an invaluable tool for every writer's storytelling toolbox.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStorygeeks Press
    Release dateJul 10, 2018
    ISBN9780997066388
    Rapid Story Development #2: Bust the Top Ten Creative Writing Myths to Become a Better Writer: Rapid Story Development, #2

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      Rapid Story Development #2 - Jeff Lyons

      Rapid Story Development #2

      RAPID STORY DEVELOPMENT #2

      BUST THE TOP TEN CREATIVE WRITING MYTHS TO BECOME A BETTER WRITER

      JEFF LYONS

      Storygeeks Press

      Rapid Story Development: Bust the Top Ten Creative Writing Myths to Become a Better Writer

      Copyright © 2018 by Jeff Lyons

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval without permission in writing from the author.

      ISBN: 978-0-9970663-8-8 (e-book)

      Cover art by Jeff Lyons

      Interior design by Jeff Lyons

      Web: www.jefflyonsbooks.com

      First Edition

      Printed in the U.S.A

      GET YOUR FREE COPY

      RAPID STORY DEVELOPMENT #1: COMMERCIAL PACE IN FICTION AND CREATIVE NONFICTION

      AVAILABLE ONLINE AT ALL MAJOR ONLINE BOOOKSELLERS

      DEDICATION

      This is for loyal readers past, present, and future.

      Because without you, what’s the point?

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      The author would like to thank the following individuals for their support, help, encouragement, patience, infinite patience, faith, trust, belief, handouts, generosity, and small petty crimes undertaken to promote the success of this book.

      • Charlene DeLong and David Allan—thank you for being trusted beta readers, editors, and telling me the truth.

      ALSO BY JEFF LYONS

      FICTION

      Jack Be Dead: Revelation (bk #1)

      13 Minutes

      Terminus Station

      The Stain (coming)

      NONFICTION

      Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Use Story and Premise Development for Writing Success

      Rapid Story Development: How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

      Rapid Story Development: The Storyteller’s Toolbox Volume One

      The Story-Subplot Connection: How to Develop Subplots for Novelists and Screenwriters (coming)

      RAPID STORY DEVELOPMENT SERIES

      #1: Commercial Pace in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

      #2: Bust the Top Ten Creative Writing Myths to Become a Better Writer

      #3: Ten Questions Every Writer Needs to Ask Before They Hire a Consultant

      #4: Teams and Ensembles: How to Write Stories with Large Casts

      #5: The Moral Premise–How to Build a Bulletproof Narrative Engine for Any Story

      #6: Seven Steps to Busting Writer’s Block Forever

      CONTENTS

      The Top Ten Creative Writing Myths

      What Is a Conscious Writer and Why Should You Care?

      The Seven Qualities of a Conscious Writer:

      How We Will Proceed

      Top Ten Myths in Creative Writing

      CONCLUSION

      Honorable Mention: Myth #11

      Attack of the Three-Act Structure

      What Is It About Acts?

      Where Did Acts Come From?

      The Pacing Problem

      Story Structure Is the Solution

      CONCLUSION

      Also by Jeff Lyons

      About the Author

      Get Your FREE Copy

      Author Offer—Anatomy of a Premise Line

      THE TOP TEN CREATIVE WRITING MYTHS

      We live in the age of clickbait, sound bites, and viral memes. On any given day, hour, minute, or second on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram you can find any number of cat videos or fortune cookie platitudes meant to bolster one or another emotional cliché or bubble gum bromide. They reflect our moods and emotional states, reinforce happy thoughts, or confirm our darkest vulnerabilities. We read them, consume them, have a laugh or a wistful shrug of self-reflection, and move on to the next one, invariably saying to ourselves, "Oh, I’ll

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