{"product_id":"book-2qm0","title":"Stop Writing!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This book belongs next to Blake Snyder's \u003cem\u003eSave the Cat!\u003c\/em\u003e and Robert McKee's \u003cem\u003eStory\u003c\/em\u003e.\" — Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso, Tony and Emmy Award-winning producer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow many years have you given to a story that still doesn't work?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe drafts pile up. The middle sags. You fix one scene and break three more. So you do what every writing book taught you to do: rewrite. Again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere's what nobody told you: the problem was never your talent. You started writing too soon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWriting isn't rewriting. It's pre-writing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStop Writing!\u003c\/em\u003e presents a complete story-development method from David Cornue, a television writer who sold his pilot \u003cem\u003eTriage\u003c\/em\u003e to 20th Television for ABC and has spent a decade coaching writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnvision the concept. Engineer the world and characters. Execute the outline. Then—and only then—start writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou'll learn how to test your story in seven sentences instead of seventy pages; discover its \"third side,\" where the heart of the plot lives; see the entire story through visual maps and a three-dimensional plotter; pitch before you write; and turn feedback into progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf outlining has ever killed a story for you, this is different. You're not writing the story before you write it. You're learning to see its shape—so you can plan like a plotter while preserving the discovery of a pantser.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest of all, development is designed to end. You'll begin writing on schedule, equipped with a story that works and a first draft that knows where it's going.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor screenplays, novels, plays, and series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead by the author. Includes a companion PDF featuring the book's maps and figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStory first. Words last. Start here.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67943833633072,"sku":"BD2qm0","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/2qm0-Square-cover.webp?v=1791221003","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2qm0","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}