The Key: How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth

"In this well-written and witty how-to, [the] author of the Damn Good writing books focuses on the tradition of myth as a recipe for storytelling." —Library Journal

In his widely read guides How to Write a Damn Good Novel and How to Write a Damn Good Novel II: Advanced Techniques, popular novelist and fiction-writing coach James N. Frey showed writers how—starting with rounded, dynamic characters—to structure a novel that sustains its tension and ends in a satisfying climax.

Now, in The Ke...