{"product_id":"brick-by-brick-how-to-build-a-story-hardcover","title":"Brick by Brick: How to Build a Story - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDouglas Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLet a multi-award-winning writer teach you how to build a story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost writing craft books, courses, and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd on and on and on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer's toolbox.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problem with that approach is the vast gulf in knowledge between having your toolbox filled with tools and applying those tools to create a story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose craft books are the equivalent of telling a rookie construction worker, \"Here's how to use a hammer, saw, level, screwdrivers, band saw, power drill, etc. Got that? Great! Now go build a house.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Douglas Smith, a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as \"one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction,\" takes a different approach. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages, Doug will show how to design that house so that you can build it. You'll learn how to create a blueprint for your story idea to take you from inspiration to story structure, a structure you can then build, brick by brick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr rather, scene by scene.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In his decades as a freelance writer, Doug's learned that the important thing about fiction isn't the mastery of the tools, but how to use them to create a story structure. That's why this book has the construction analogy in its title. He's not teaching you how to write like everyone else; he's teaching you how to use an expected structure to be your very best writerly self.\" \u003c\/p\u003e- \u003cem\u003eKristine Kathryn Rusch, multi-award-winning author and editor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56435375145265,"sku":"9781928048503","price":32.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/ERgC_lpyX19781928048503.webp?v=1790167969","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/brick-by-brick-how-to-build-a-story-hardcover","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}