Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

“Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

Reading it, you swoon, thinking, I want to learn to write luscious sentences just like that! rather than I want to learn to write the kind of story that would give sentences like that their power!

In a nutshell: A story is about how the things that happen affect someone in pursuit of a difficult goal, and how that person changes internally as a result.