{"id":87,"date":"2010-08-17T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2010-08-17T01:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T06:38:00","slug":"new-additions-to-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"New Additions to the Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a reward to myself for submitting my synopsis to the Marza Story Circus Competition, I ordered some screenwriting books off Amazon a couple of weeks ago. Well, they arrived today!&nbsp;I ordered&nbsp;Dr Stan D Williams&#8217; <em>The Moral Premise<\/em> and John Truby&#8217;s <em>The Anatomy of Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen a little bit about <em>The Moral Premise<\/em> on Dr Williams&#8217; blog, and it seems to be a very close fit to Blake&#8217;s structure in <em>Save the Cat!<\/em> After I&#8217;ve read it, I&#8217;ll let you know what I think, and also compare the structure of the two methods.<\/p>\n<p>I am less familiar with Truby&#8217;s concepts, but I&#8217;ve read some of his articles on the &#8216;Net and what he espouses seems good. I&#8217;m hoping that these two new books will confirm Blake&#8217;s structure, but also add information and useful tips to sections that Blake didn&#8217;t focus on, so that the insight from all three is useful and leads to super-effective story construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a reward to myself for submitting my synopsis to the Marza Story Circus Competition, I ordered some screenwriting books off Amazon a couple of weeks ago. Well, they arrived today!&nbsp;I ordered&nbsp;Dr Stan D Williams&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,137,74,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anatomy-of-story","category-books","category-screenwriting","category-the-moral-premise"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}