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Tony Walker's avatar

Well. Do you want to write a ghost story? What kind of story? There are books out there and probably youtube videos. Save the Cat and Save the Cat writes a Novel. Tick-Tock Plotting. The Story Physics Series. Story by Robert McKee

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Andrew's avatar

Mr Walker, I’ll look it up your recommendations. It’s better if I message you directly. I was planning a story of come of age, strange things start happening and a group of colleagues find a place where things are subtly surreal, like a spring, sewege or gully hole that connects another world to our own. Including abandoned stations that keep sending signals this way.

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Tony Walker's avatar

first of all, sketch out your story. Know what’s gonna happen when. That isn’t set in stone and it can.. but sketch out the beats. Then you can build a story by beat.

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William Tuckwell's avatar

Cheap at twice the price.

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Andrew's avatar

I didn’t know about this website and I found your posts this week. I’m from a country that isn’t really common reading books (Brazil) so I’m in the very start of my journey, wondering why I find some classics so boring but then some books gems just makes me read it quickly. Your audiobooks and your reading, most of them are pleasing and exactly what I enjoy, best one the Hollow Man, the The Little Ghost not so.

I’m more into Drawing and gaming, so learning Storytelling without much books in my bagage is reaaally hard. In my infancy of the topic, can you give me some advices, because I wanted to write this story, and I got some original concepts, but I can’t put it together. I just wanted to be illustrating my story without this hassle. Like, doesn’t need to be a ground breaking story, if you’re interested I would share you my ideas. :) I think I’m mostly troubled with the archetype balance for each genre it has.

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