{"product_id":"brick-by-brick-douglas-smith-9781928048503","title":"Brick by Brick: How to Build a Story","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLet a multi-award-winning writer teach you how to build a story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost writing craft books, courses, and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd on and on and on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer's toolbox.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problem with that approach is the vast gulf in knowledge between having your toolbox filled with tools and applying those tools to create a story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose craft books are the equivalent of telling a rookie construction worker, \"Here's how to use a hammer, saw, level, screwdrivers, band saw, power drill, etc. Got that? Great! Now go build a house.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Douglas Smith, a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as \"one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction,\" takes a different approach. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages, Doug will show how to design that house so that you can build it. You'll learn how to create a blueprint for your story idea to take you from inspiration to story structure, a structure you can then build, brick by brick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr rather, scene by scene.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In his decades as a freelance writer, Doug's learned that the important thing about fiction isn't the mastery of the tools, but how to use them to create a story structure. That's why this book has the construction analogy in its title. He's not teaching you how to write like everyone else; he's teaching you how to use an expected structure to be your very best writerly self.\" \u003c\/p\u003e- \u003cem\u003eKristine Kathryn Rusch, multi-award-winning author and editor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1928048501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781928048503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Spiral Path Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Douglas Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50593660731647,"sku":"9781928048503","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brick-by-brick-douglas-smith-9781928048503","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}