The 24 Laws of Storytelling: A Practical Handbook for Great Storytellers

by Jonathan Baldie

IT'S TIME TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR STORIES Stories have a unique power to immerse, delight, and educate. So why do some stories work and others fail? The 24 Laws of Storytelling distils the lessons learned from stories past and present into a practical handbook that you can use for any story you decide to write. This book will teach you the principles you need to immerse your audience, deliver immensely satisfying drama, and educate better than any textbook or lecture can. There's no need for any special tools, expensive writing software, or Hollywood contacts. You only need to learn from the successes and blunders of past stories. By extracting the timeless writing principles from master storytellers such as Christopher Nolan, Stephen King, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Lucas, Alfred Hitchcock, and many more, this unique work will provide a fascinating insight into the laws of storytelling and how to use them to create your own masterpieces.

Genres: Writing

485 pages, Paperback

Published November 11, 2018

Reviews

[John Rossman]

Read this some time ago. I need to go back and reread it.

[Michael Kvick]

It’s an interesting book if you’re heavy into the subject matter but the reusing of the same case studies leaves a bit wanting and overall I felt the book landed in the void between education and entertainment. Good to have if you’re a writer or really into the topic but overall not a storytelling must.

[Subjuntivo Subjuntivo]

Lame

[Bernadine Okoro]

Very informative

Loved the level of detail, the movie and other genre examples used to illustrate the laws. Great book! Will be going back to apply it to my projects.

[Derek]

This became background music as I played Valheim.

There seem to be good laws in here, but I struggle to remember any of them.

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Went back to write all the laws down. Some of them could use an editing pass so they can be a better representation for the law in the eyes of both the reader and the author. For example, Make bold choices is better described by the title of the best selling Japanese book 嫌われる勇気 (The courage to be disliked). Since the main idea is be willing to make bold choices that could be considered controversial, and splitting your audience.