<B>“So often people ask me if there’s a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can’t recommend it highly enough.”––Alexa Junge, writer/producer, <I>Friends</I>, <I>Sex and the City</I>, <I>The West Wing</I></B><BR/> <BR/><B>A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse narratives, for novelists, storytellers, filmmakers, graphic designers, and more. </B>Author Daniel Joshua Rubin unlocks the secrets of what makes a story work, and then shows how to understand and use these principles in your own writing. The result is “an invaluable resource” (<I>Publishers Weekly</I>, starred review), offering priceless advice like escalate risk, with an example from <I>Pulp Fiction</I>. <B>Write characters to the top of their intelligence</B>, from the Eminem song “Stan.” <B>Earn transformations</B>, from Alison Bechdel’s <I>Fun Home</I>. <B>Attack your theme</B>, from <I>The Brothers Karamazov</I>. Insightful,