Rapid Story Development #2: Bust the Top Ten Creative Writing Myths to Become a Better Writer: Rapid Story Development, #2

RAPID STORY DEVELOPMENT #2

BUST THE TOP TEN CREATIVE WRITING MYTHS TO BECOME A BETTER WRITER

JEFF LYONS

Rapid Story Development: Bust the Top Ten Creative Writing Myths to Become a Better Writer

Copyright © 2018 by Jeff Lyons

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ISBN: 978-0-9970663-8-8 (e-book)

Cover art by Jeff Lyons

Interior design by Jeff Lyons

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RAPID STORY DEVELOPMENT #1: COMMERCIAL PACE IN FICTION AND CREATIVE NONFICTION

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DEDICATION

This is for loyal readers past, present, and future.

Because without you, what’s the point?

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author would like to thank the following individuals for their support, help, encouragement, patience, infinite patience, faith, trust, belief, handouts, generosity, and small petty crimes undertaken to promote the success of this book.

• Charlene DeLong and David Allan—thank you for being trusted beta readers, editors, and telling me the truth.

ALSO BY JEFF LYONS

FICTION

Jack Be Dead: Revelation (bk #1)

13 Minutes

Terminus Station

The Stain (coming)

NONFICTION

Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Use Story and Premise Development for Writing Success

Rapid Story Development: How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

Rapid Story Development: The Storyteller’s Toolbox Volume One

The Story-Subplot Connection: How to Develop Subplots for Novelists and Screenwriters (coming)

RAPID STORY DEVELOPMENT SERIES

#1: Commercial Pace in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

#2: Bust the Top Ten Creative Writing Myths to Become a Better Writer

#3: Ten Questions Every Writer Needs to Ask Before They Hire a Consultant

#4: Teams and Ensembles: How to Write Stories with Large Casts

#5: The Moral Premise–How to Build a Bulletproof Narrative Engine for Any Story

#6: Seven Steps to Busting Writer’s Block Forever

CONTENTS

The Top Ten Creative Writing Myths

What Is a Conscious Writer and Why Should You Care?

The Seven Qualities of a Conscious Writer:

How We Will Proceed

Top Ten Myths in Creative Writing

CONCLUSION

Honorable Mention: Myth #11

Attack of the Three-Act Structure

What Is It About Acts?

Where Did Acts Come From?

The Pacing Problem

Story Structure Is the Solution

CONCLUSION

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THE TOP TEN CREATIVE WRITING MYTHS

We live in the age of clickbait, sound bites, and viral memes. On any given day, hour, minute, or second on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram you can find any number of cat videos or fortune cookie platitudes meant to bolster one or another emotional cliché or bubble gum bromide. They reflect our moods and emotional states, reinforce happy thoughts, or confirm our darkest vulnerabilities. We read them, consume them, have a laugh or a wistful shrug of self-reflection, and move on to the next one, invariably saying to ourselves, "Oh, I’ll