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  • Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers
  • Written by: Matt Bird
  • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
  • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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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.

©2016 Matt Bird (P)2016 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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Insightful, properly educational

If you're looking for the wtiting advice your instructors somehow manage to consistently miss, this may be your book.

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So insightful

This is an outstanding book on story writing, structure, plot, characters, you name it. It checks all the boxes,
and he kicks open the doors to shares great information about all of this art form. After listening to this audio version, I’ll be ordering the actual book as a hard copy reference to so many insights. Very well done and you’ll be glad you took the time to check this material out. It’s a game changer.

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Learn a new phrase please!

Matt’s blog has been a fantastic resource, and the book is a helpful follow-up, but if I have to hear the phrase “au contraire” one more time I’m going to smash something. It’s like attending a masterclass taught by the apparently kid

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