Review

The thesis of this book is that good stories are character driven. They tell about a character changing and answering the primary question - who are they.

Plot happens. As do the other things. The stories that stay are the stories that deal with a change in character - who goes from some sort of imbalance in their nature to one where they are more balanced.

I borrowed this book from the library after reading the description. Because I have been reading about plot and the technical aspects of writing, I had thought this book would be similar. It wasn’t.

It basically takes research done by psychologists and compares it to the ways stories have been written for thousands of years.

I especially liked the part about how we live in a hallucinated world created by our brains with our organs acting as fact-checking things.

I enjoyed reading it.