The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Matt Bird (Author), Eric Michael Summerer (Narrator), HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books (Publisher)

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The Secrets of Story is a revolutionary and comprehensive writing guide for the 21st century, focused on clever ways to get an audience to fully identify with an all-too-human hero. Authors will learn to how to cut through pop culture noise and win over a jaded modern audience by rediscovering the heart of writing: shaping stories that ring true to our shared understanding of human nature. Providing conversational advice that spans multiple disciplines - from fiction to film to creative nonfiction - Matt Bird's insightful techniques allow characters to come alive and stories to reach a new level of appeal.

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12 hours and 2 minutes
Author

Matt Bird
Narrator

Eric Michael Summerer
Audible release date

1 November 2016
Language

English
Publisher

HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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B07B6XJTBF
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	12 hours and 2 minutes
Author	Matt Bird
Narrator	Eric Michael Summerer
Audible.in Release Date	01 November 2016
Publisher	HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07B6XJTBF
Best Sellers Rank	#15,155 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #59 in Writing, Research & Publishing Guides #1,332 in Writing Guides (Books)

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Michael Fuchs

An Instant Modern Classic – Indispensable Storytelling Gold

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 17 October 2021

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Bottom line, this is amongst my TOP FIVE BOOKS ON STORYCRAFT – and, yes, I've read them all. It includes hundreds of brilliant, actionable, *true* insights, techniques, and principles to guide the professional storyteller through what is really some of the hardest work in the world to do well. It's also a total blast to read. I review my copious highlighting in it before every new book I write. Buy and read this now, thank me at leisure. (The photo by the way, was twittorial documentation of me reviewing *just the very, very, very good stuff*, before doing the hardest creative work of my life – namely, writing the 1/3-million-word climax & conclusion to a 6-year, 16-book, 1.6-million-word series – in order to put the most fundamental story principles at the very forefront of my brain, when I needed them most urgently.)

L. White

A great way to analyse and strengthen stories

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 15 February 2021

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This book breaks down storytelling, going through topics such as concept, characters, structure, dialogue, etc, to really analyse what makes a story engaging and irresistible. While the examples are largely from the world of film, the techniques are equally suitable to novels etc, and gives concrete advice on how to improve the story and the way it is told. Easy to get through, with clear headings to break the main points down, I'm finding it invaluable as I work on my novel and try to ensure that I really am telling the best story in the best way.

Pelican

One Of The Best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 28 May 2019

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There's a medium-sized industry now trying to help people to create novels, stage plays and screenplays that other people will want to read or see. In terms of instruction books alone there must be well over a hundred in print, with more being published all the time. Indeed, it seems to me to be very difficult for the would-be teachers to say anything fresh. But Matt Bird has succeeded in doing so, and I class his book as one of the three or four most interesting, instructive and useful that I've read. His book is up there alongside Robert McKee's, Syd Field's and Blake Snyder's as far as I'm concerned.

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An outstanding achievement…

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 18 December 2016

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This book doesn’t belong in the book case beside all your other screenwriting books.

While you are waiting for it to arrive, build yourself an environment proof gold plated shrine in your basement and then buy some of those special gloves they use in museums to handle priceless artefacts. When people ask to borrow it, and they will, throw them out of your house and never talk to them again.

In this saturated market, it’s very rare to get a book that sets itself so far apart from the rest.

And yet here it is, a book that will fundamentally change the way you look at Story.

An outstanding achievement…

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fred salmon

The mentor you have always wanted

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 December 2016

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I have followed Matt's blog for the last couple years, and he is the mentor you have always wanted.

Honest, clear, concise, and totally anti-guru, it's for anyone looking to learn. And yes, ANYONE can learn to write. It's hard but it is doable, no talent required, just elbow grease and an understanding of the actualities of the craft.

I have no doubt that this will eventually become an absolute must-read, it is far beyond any writing book I have ever read before.

Anyway, I have to read it again, and take notes again -- because every sentence is a nugget and I can't miss a singe thing.

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