My writing instructor once recommended this book to me, so here we are.
It was worth a read. Alison emphasized that there are narrative patterns other My writing instructor once recommended this book to me, so here we are.
It was worth a read. Alison emphasized that there are narrative patterns other than the dramatic arc—a very Western way of storytelling—most people know so well. She categorizes these as waves, wavelets, meanders, spirals, radials, cells, fractals, etc. The examples she provided in the book demonstrated the power of these different types of narrative patterns.
Reading Meander, Spiral, Explode had led me to think more about how to tell a story....more