Write Your First Love Story

by D.G. Mayes

Overview

Write Your First Love Story is an exercise for understanding, outlining, and writing love stories. Whether or not you're new to writing, this book will help you craft complete stories. It provides writers with a solid foundation for understanding the love story genre and gives suggestions, guidance, and a few bonus story-writing tips to help them bring their ideas to life. This book will raise the critical questions, who, what, when, where, why and how? Who are the characters, what are the problems, when and where will the story take place, why are you writing the story, and how is a love story structured? Finally, with all of those questions answered, it looks at the different perspectives in which writers may present a story to the readers. Also, included in this book is a detailed scene by scene walk-through for helping writers develop love story outlines. This step by step exercise will enable you to Write Your First Love Story!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161607770
Publisher:	D.G. Mayes
Publication date:	11/23/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

D.G. Mayes is the author of the Write Your First Story series of books. He wrote the books to help beginning writers bring their ideas to life, and help experienced authors to expand their knowledge of fiction-craft. Mayes had an early life filled with shelves full of coverless books and comics; books salvaged by his father who labored as a sanitation worker. Mayes dove deep into the unloved literature that others had abandoned. His passion of story has followed him throughout his life. He has been a production worker, security officer, delivery driver, and farmhand, as well as a chronicler, archivist, video editor, and a consultant in the film and digital media management industry.

Throughout his life his love of story kept returning, it eventually landed him in the business of entertainment. Here he developed his love of story-craft. From the early 90's thru the mid-2000's, he found himself working as a talent developer, trainer, content creator, and performer for several independent professional wrestling troupes throughout the United States. In 2014 D.G. Mayes was inducted into the A.I.W.F (Allied Independent Wrestling Federations) Hall of Fame.

Today D.G. Mayes has a focus on generating helpful resources for the creative minded. He is the author of Your First Look @ Story; it's a brief Introduction to the essential elements and structure required to craft a story. He followed that up with Write Your First Story, Write Your First Love Story, and Write Your First Ghost Story; which includes scene by scene outlining exercises that enable writers to explore their ideas. He's also written Your First Story Writing Guide; helping aspiring writers develop their knowledge of story creation, assisting them with creating deep and relatable characters, crafting vibrant story worlds, and how to give readers meaningful story experiences. His future goals are to develop more of these helpful resources for those who enjoy stories, choose to learn, and love to share.