The Six Stages for Building Stories That Move People.
Six stages, one chain: Facts, Flow, Meaning, Emotion, Drive, Action. The book shows where a story’s power comes from and where it gets lost, so you can find the stall yourself, on any page, in any draft.
By Platte F. Clark: screenwriter, novelist, and ghostwriter of 30+ books.
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