With All My Heart: THE SIGN OF 4, #1

By neville HURT

V O L U M E  1   of   3   P A R T S

 

***  GREATLY  REVISED  &  ACCURATE  ***

 

The professionals cannot or will not tell you the truth - in a sensible way.  This is the complete  DEEP LITERARY THEME THEORY.

It always produces top quality publishable work.  The theory is complex - and profound.  However, the many pieces are simple - and sublime !

So, let's join special archetypes - SNAKE, ELEPHANT, LION and GIRAFFE - as they demonstrate the 4 STYLES OF THE MIND'S THINKING.

This creates the 16 BEATS - and in this volume - they exist in the NEUTRAL & PASSIVE versions.  Includes interesting actual story examples . . .

 

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bear Books
• Release date: Jul 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393407232

Book preview

27 th  October  2 0 1 7  GOMORRAH  UNITED  KINGDOM

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Millions of great ideas end-up completely ruined

Millions of what could be masterpieces lie forlorn in drawers

Millions of pounds on self-publishing scams - and silly correspondence courses wasted

Millions of writing hours gone for nothing ! ! !

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We may create interesting  3D characters, sparkling dialogue, and drama – that just leaps into our laps.  But without a true understanding of what exactly PLOT and STORY really are, our work will lack any depth - and any real literary merit.

I know that's painful news.

It  does hurt.

And it has always has hurt me.

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We will achieve these twin goals  :

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#  To demonstrate the workings of the internal brain by solving a problem.  Hopefully, in the process - creating a work that will outlive the author, and make them join the ranks of – Henrik Ibsen, Harper Lee, and Dylan Thomas – to quote but three !

Or create a best-selling novel – that gains a  £ 1. 5  million pound - or dollar -  film rights  deal.

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#  To demonstrate just HOW the human brain works in order to make fictional characters think and behave - as real-life ones do, all too well.

For the internal brain created the cities and everyday world - that we encounter in our domestic family experience, at school or work – and not forgetting leisure time.  Remember, if it wasn't for the human mind we'd all still be living in caves !  Our work is supposed to imitate this wonderful rich pageant, so we must understand how the internal mind works to begin with.

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A  TRIBUTE  TO  ALL  SPECIAL  HUMAN-BEINGS  WHO  SIMPLY  SAY  . . .

I  DO  LOVE  A  GOOD  STORY  –  BUT  HOW  IN  GOD'S  CREATION  DO  I  WRITE  ONE  ? 

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The absolute guru has to be the Russian –  KONSTANTIN  STANISLAVSKI.

THE  STORY really does only have 16 BEATS to it.

These can make up TAROT-CARDS of prediction of your characters' futures.

Our STORY-DRUM beats - or bangs – just 16 times, then it will beat again for us every-time we re-read, or experience the wonderful adventure.

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The next greatest individual must be some Joe Smoe called - NEVILLE HURT for working like a trojan with no remuneration  ! ! !

I haven't just read a pile of HOW-NOT-TO-WRITE books, paraphrased the best pieces and cobbled these books together.  I read the tragic tomes over 20 years ago - then put them in the back of my mind.

I carried out this work by imitating those Greek philosophers, that did their work just by sitting on their back-sides - and conducting mind-experiments to discover their science. 

I'm not a social-worker,  moral crusader of the masses, political activist, pious religious nut – but in private, I was a little bit of a FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN - wretching my brain out of my head, whacking it against the wall, and sticking a huge butcher's knife into it's spongy depths . . .

Tell me your fucking secrets – I yelled like my life depended on it.

I was that desperate and I hope you all are too !

Then I asked in a much quieter reflective manner  - What is simple and makes good sense ?  I reasoned it all out – Does it still make true sense ?

But here can be a mistake, for a cannonball and a cork-ball of the same size - but much less weight – will hit the ground at exactly the same time.  A result that no Greek philosopher would ever have reasoned !

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Everybody just splashes and snorkels about in the shallows of the story-oceans.

Now, I travel down in a mental-submarine to the CONTINENTIAL SHELF.  There in the beams of strong searchlights, I take great pleasure in observing the incredible details of crevasses and escarpments of the character and plot of many great successful stories.

However, I begun to receive ideas from much deeper down – and realise my knowledge is starting to slip away from me.  But I learn about THE 4 STORY QUESTIONS and started to meet THE FOUR STORY CREATURES . . .

So I dived down, ever deeper and darker.  Down to 35,850 feet of the realms visited by  TRIESTE  and  D S V  LIMITING FACTOR !

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When we all try to write, we enter a mad emotional place  – but get different results.  I'll admit here, I often take a sneaky peak into this mayhem.  WHAT A SHOCK . . .

This isn't a realistic world at all.

It was like opening your bedroom door to find yourself in outer-space, at the sea-side, or in the Australian Outback.

As the waves of  THE SEA OF MEMORY  lap against a jagged-rock coastline, or on the sand of the occasional beach on THE ISLA IMAGINARI – you may experience a few odd things.

The squarish land-mass may be tiny in comparison with THE LAND OF HOPE & GLORY – but many wonderful things occur – from red and blue fish leaping in a freshwater waterfall or casually twisting around in a pool of reflective thought – to humans living in a wonderful cartwheel-walled medieval city called – HEATHERFIELDS.

I never remain long here to learn anything, for I'm surprised by a long loud hiss in an overgrown jungle - with a long abandoned city called – ABSENTIA within a dense deep centre.

I hurry towards a portal, experiencing a shuffling sound - and turn around, just in time to see two red beady eyes - peer at me in the gloom.  Everything always finishes the same . . .

I slam the magical portal exit shut behind me ! ! !

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So then, I tried creating double-clause sentences of single THEME words – getting rid of several redundant ones within the 16 BEATS – revising my ideas as I went.  I began to lose the my precious theory altogether – but started to generate the HEROS' JOURNEY information.

Once this begun to work, I went back to an original film example to clarify 16 PASSIVE BEATS – then recreated the true 16 ACTIVE BEATS.

Thankfully, LITERARY THEORY fully returned.

THE FOUR STORY ANIMALS soon gave up the rest of their secrets using the concepts of  MIND  and  WISDOM  . . .

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My truly outstanding achievements  :

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#  16  BEATS  BEAUTIFULLY DESCRIBED  in  their  NATURAL  NEUTRAL,  PASSIVE & ACTIVE  forms

#  ARCHETYPAL  CHARACTERS  in squares  on  A 4  SHEET  LAYER  !

#  THE  PRECISE  LITERARY  THEME  SENTENCES  .  .  .  plus

#  THE EXISTENCE OF -  THE  16  BITS OF  BUSINESS  ! ! !

#  THE  SKEPTICAL  SOLUTION  FOR  SYMBOLIC  SUB-TEXT

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-  which was finally completed  to my deep thorough satisfaction  on the  1 1 0  th  anniversary of the sinking of  ROYAL  MAIL  STEAMER  T I T A N I C  - while taking her maiden voyage on  -  A P R I L  1 5  th .

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Alexander  Baumgarten  –  AESTHETICS

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Joseph  Campbell  &  Christopher  Vogler  -  Booker  et al.  –

THE  ACTIVE  HERO'S  PLOT-CHARACTER  JOURNEY

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Gustav Fretag – THE  PYRAMID  STORY  ARC

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Sigmund  Freud  -  THE  INDIVIDUAL  HUMAN  MIND

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Charles  Bush  Hampton  -  interested  in  SUSPENSE  &  THE  STORY  QUESTIONS

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Albert  Humphrey  –  S W O T  BUSINESS  ANALYSIS

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Carl Jung  -  GROUP-MIND  ARCHETYPAL  CHARACTERS

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Robert McKee :

PLUS AND MINUS  fluctuations

The  STORY - EVENT  CHANGES

The  PERSONAL  VIEW  RELATIONSHIPS

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Melanie  Ann  Philips -  PASSIVE  STORY  ANALYSIS

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Linda  Seeger –  THE  STORY  SPINE

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Blake Snyder -  " SAVE THE CAT "  METHOD  describing :

THE  HOLLYWOOD  1 6  BLOCK  CHARACTER-PLOT  SEQUENCE

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For the first believed popular professional use of :

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THE  6 4  DRAMATIC  PLOT  LITERARY-CONCEPTS  -  Henrik Ibsen

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THE  1 6  BLOCK  DOWN-BEAT SEQUENCE  -  The Reverend Charles Dodgson

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The creators and createes – past present and future - of  written and visual works.

B.B.C. TELEVISION – that really did educate and inform, as well as entertain

INDEPENDENT U K TELEVISION NETWORKS  -  past & present

Other  TELEVISION  NETWORKS  WORLD-WIDE  and  the  many  FILM STUDIOS

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Also the many and valued - THE BOOK PUBLISHERS WORLD-WIDE.

THE U K LIBRARIES – that I really couldn't have ever have coped without – and to ANDREW CARNEGIE – that started them all.

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LESLIE  BRISCUSSE  and his celebrated inspirational song  -  THE AGE OF PURE  IMAGINATION

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Please spare a thought for -  THE MANY ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS  . . .

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And so, it is to all these clever giants and many more - whose shoulders have hoicked me up . . .

Forcing my beady eyes wider open  – that I owe so, so much to !

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W  E  H  A  V  E  A  L  L  B  E  E  N  T  H  E  R  E  B  E  F  O  R  E  .

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N E V I L L E  H U R T

TAKE  A  DAWN  STROLL  TO  THE  WRITING  SHED  WITH  A  NICE  BOWL  OF  CONFLICTS !

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It really is about time someone tells you the real truth about creative-writing . . .

They have had a  C E N T U R Y  to do so  !

While we don't need to be told WHAT to think, we still need to be told HOW to think - and more importantly WHY we think it in the first place.

Joseph Campbell first wrote about a special type of story that he called – AN HERO'S JOURNEY – this from a genius, that was never a professional novelist to begin with.  Christopher Vogler brought this theory back into popular use.  The structure contains approximately 12 to 17 stages, and you were even allowed to omit one or two – if you didn't think you needed them.

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