Story Structure Safari

Beautiful words and exciting scenes aren’t enough to propel the reader through a novel. Stories need a plan, a focus, a solid structure from beginning to end.

In this 30-day course, you will explore the story structure elements, transformational character arcs, and plot that make up powerful, bestselling stories. You will learn how to analyze examples, from bestselling novels, movies, or TV shows, for each story element or concept. A variety of activities and techniques help you hone your skills and infuse these elements and concepts into your own story. You’ll receive feedback from the instructor, and often from other classmates, to aid in your understanding of the concepts as you apply them to your story.

Story Structure Safari’s goal is to help you dig deep into the heart of your story and focus on how to consistently meet or exceed your reader’s expectations.

A story is created by weaving together two major components, Plot and Character, within a setting or world. Both the plot and characters change and evolve as the story unfolds. Neither plot nor character can stand alone.

Story Structure helps the writer identify elements and patterns throughout a story. Story Structure aids in understanding how those elements can be woven together to create a powerful, effective story that meets or exceeds reader expectations.

Story Structure is a framework to help identify and create:

How to identify the core elements of your story. This includes the genre, the subject (what the story is about), the thematic point of view, the internal character goal and fatal flaw, the external relationship goal and obstacles.

How to distill your story into a Safari Plotline.

How to identify three threads in your story: Relationship thread, Internal thread, and the Plot or External thread.

How to recognize the four-zone story structure, the main purpose of each zone, and the specific elements that are special to each zone.

How to map out the Landmarks (important elements, scenes and turning points) in the four zones.

How to compare your protagonist to the archetype character in each zone and show that on the page.

How to identify the interdependence of plot, character arc, and setting in each zone.

How to use your completed lesson worksheets and instructor and class feedback from the online forums to fully develop your story idea, write your first draft, or edit the draft you have completed.

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For writers who have become stymied while writing the first draft or a subsequent draft of their novel. For successfully published authors who want to learn more about creating powerful stories to exceed reader expectations.

For writers who have an idea for a novel but don’t know how to get started writing or even planning the story.

For writers who want to learn and practice some new skills to analyze bestselling works and be able to apply that new knowledge to their future writing.

For novice writers who want to learn more about what character and plot elements make up a story.

For writers who want to write more quickly by avoiding tangents and redundancies and wasted scenes that will ultimately be deleted because they don’t reveal character or move the plot forward.

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Lisa Miller retired from teaching and counseling after 30 years. While she loved writing YA fiction, she has been drawn back into teaching. Not always finding the writing classes she needed; Lisa scoured the internet and how-to books for self-instruction. She funneled that knowledge into the creation of the Story Structure Safari and Creating a Constellation of Character classes and merged it with her master teaching skills and experience with different learning styles. She’s been teaching her story structure and character focused classes for over a decade, and she continues to update materials and expand her knowledge to best meet writer needs.

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