In addition to engineering, Ara also knows quite a bit about exotic travel: GAME OF LOVE takes readers from France to California to London, as its two leads, tennis superstar Gemma Lennon and scientist Andre Reyes, take their journey to love. Synthesis-the new world (SPOILER ALERT) Katniss defies the Capitol and wins the Games, sparking two more books and three more movies.Antithesis-the upside-down world (Actual workshop example: Katniss enters the world of the glittering Capitol and the nightmarish televised Games.).Thesis-the ordinary world (Actual workshop example: Katniss Everdeen’s world before she volunteers to take her sister Prim’s place as a Tribute in the Hunger Games.).His engineering background came to the forefront when he showed a slide comparing the movie three-act structure to the Tower Bridge of London.
The architectural image is deliberate: Ara is a writer by passion, an engineer by trade and currently a technology executive in the entertainment industry. What it will do is make you a stronger storyteller.” Writers can do this by paying attention to the beats-the key moments in your story.Īra’s teaching method takes that Parthenon of screenwriting, the late Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat!, and makes it into the Parthenon plus the Empire State Building and the Tower Bridge. Speaking to a packed standing-room-only audience at the Hyatt Santa Barbara on a Wednesday afternoon, Ara said, “This will not improve the quality of your writing. (Even if romance or tennis isn’t your thing, buy the book!) Ara is a veteran of the Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference, featured prominently as a speaker on two panels (the “First Book Panel” and the “Building Your Author Platform Panel”) and as the leader of his own one-time workshop, “Finding the Story Beats”. the journey in the story, can’t succeed.įor that we turn to debut novelist Ara Grigorian, author of the New Adult romance GAME OF LOVE. You need to know your must-haves without which your vacation, a.k.a. Packing for a trip is a great analogy for constructing story structure. Your humble correspondent spent last week at #SBWC15 and her bags proved to be well-stocked. In a previous post we gave recommendations as to what to pack for a writers’ conference, in this case the Santa Barbara Writers Conference.
Here is what Kristin learned at the Story Beats Workshop in Santa Barbara. There is both an art and a science to setting the pace of your novel.
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