{"id":2843,"date":"2015-06-18T07:26:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2015-06-18T07:26:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T14:26:07","slug":"recommended-for-writers-book-architecture-by-stuart-horwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2015\/06\/18\/recommended-for-writers-book-architecture-by-stuart-horwitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended for Writers: Book Architecture by Stuart Horwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a>I’m a big fan of Outlining, but I’m aware it’s not everyone’s bowl of candy.<\/p>\n

Aside from the “I prefer to flounder about like a fish at the bottom of a row boat,” there’s the rather better\u00a0argument that Outlining can crush every story into the same tin can. And the traditional 15-point Story Arc doesn’t really help when you’re juggling a large cast, a number of intertwined storylines or using flashbacks and other complicated temporal devices to tell a complex story.<\/p>\n

But what’s the alternative?<\/p>\n

Stuart Horwitz’s Book Architecture<\/a> offers one way forward. I’ll discuss the method in more detail in my post tomorrow, “How To Write a Novel Without An Outline.”<\/p>\n

As you’ll soon see, I don’t actually regard\u00a0Horwitz’s method as antagonistic to the more common form of Outlining… more like Yin to Yang. Both methods are stronger together. It’s that possibility that I’ll explore in my post, “How to Use Reiteration in Romance,” later this month.<\/p>\n

Buy\u00a0Book Architecture<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Blueprint Your Bestseller<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

And guess what! If you join my\u00a0Misque Writers Club, I will automatically enter your name in a drawing to win a\u00a0signed & numbered print edition (one of a limited collector’s edition of\u00a0250) of Stuart Horwitz\u2019s book. \u00a0Drawing ends midnight\u00a0Saturday June 20.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a big fan of Outlining, but I’m aware it’s not everyone’s bowl of candy. Aside from the “I prefer to flounder about like a fish at the bottom of a row boat,” there’s the rather better\u00a0argument that Outlining can crush every story into the same tin can. And the traditional 15-point Story Arc doesn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,577],"tags":[688,689],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recommended-for-writers","category-writing","tag-pantsers","tag-pantsing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}