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Leon Conrad - The Unknown Storyteller Project

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Story and Structure: A Complete Guide

Story and Structure: A Complete Guide

Story and Structure will make you rethink your idea of story! Finalist: People's Book Prize 2022, IPNE NF-Book-of-the-Year Winner 2022

2023

Stories

What does poetry have to do with the liberal arts?

‘ A stitch in time saves nine’; ‘ many a mickle makes a muckle’; ‘ in for a penny, in for a pound ‘. I’m sure you can think of many more.

May 4, 2024

Hollow metal cylinder with stencil-cut text illuminated by light projecting words around the form. Art installation at the Memorial Art Gallery, University Avenue, Rochester, NY, USA. Photo by Hudson Graves, Unsplash.

May 4, 2024

Glad you're highlighting the Ki-Shō-Ten-Ketsu structure.

Feb 9, 2024

Feb 9, 2024

Courting the muse …

Where does the potter go to find the perfect bit of clay with which to create the perfect vessel to contain a shooting star’s dreams?

Feb 4, 2023

At the bottom of this picture, a figure clothed in purple holds their left arm up, holding a wand which points directly at a purple eye in a blue circle in the top third of the picture. Living plants, water, blue and purple smoke or mist appear in the background against a sandstone backdrop. Magic is in the air.

Feb 4, 2023

Structures

Walk the secret paths that stories follow

Jan 4, 2023

A blue background. Vertical lines of symbols used to map story structure fall Matrix-like in vertical lines. The hands frame a tablet on which the Quest structure (Opening — Character in initial situation — Problem — Journey — Meeting with friend/helper — Meeting with enemy/hindrance — Character in final situation — Closing) is symbolised.

Jan 4, 2023

GREAT article. Kudos. I'd love to know the sources for the quotes - particularly the Gaiman quote.

Nov 6, 2022

Nov 6, 2022

A Question of Style

What is it and why is it important?

Nov 5, 2022

Illustration showing ink bottle, quill pen and suspended above a triple arch, in front of which are two figures, pointing at the open landscape beyond the triple opening.

Nov 5, 2022

Frank Herbert’s advice: ‘Concentrate on story’

But what does he mean?

Oct 30, 2022

Stretch of desert with pylons, a signpost in the foreground which reads ‘Dune 7’ alongside tree and fire symbols

Oct 30, 2022

The Character of Character

A deep dive into characterisation in writing

Oct 5, 2022

‘Description’ — Illustration by Carol Michelon for Master the Art and Craft of Writing by Leon Conrad with a puppeteer manipulating another puppeteer’s hands manipulating different aspects of a character’s face and mind. To the side, pens poised vertically pointing upwards and downwards against a predominantly purple background of rectangles and squares

Oct 5, 2022

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What can story teach us about life?

Story can teach us a lot— stories, however …

Sep 9, 2022

A young boy sitting on a bench on a sunny day laughing, with an open reference book on his lap.

Sep 9, 2022

Making Links

So near and yet so far …

Sep 7, 2022

Focusing figure manipulates linked lines that join to a compass, giving direction to thought

Sep 7, 2022

Leon Conrad - The Unknown Storyteller Project

Leon Conrad - The Unknown Storyteller Project

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Writer, Story Structure Consultant, Educator; author of ‘Story and Structure: A complete guide’, finalist: The People’s Book Prize '22 linktr.ee/leonconradstory

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