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Trust Your Story: Book Index

Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career

Author: Will Raywood

1984

2001: A Space Odyssey

action scenes

active vs. passive voice

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The

advertising

Aesop

AI

AIDA marketing principle

algorithms

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Alien

American Gods

Andor

Angel’s Cocktail

Animal Farm

antagonist

Apocalypse Now

Apollo 13

archetypes

ARCs

Aristotle

Armageddon Rag, The

artistic vision 

As You Like It

Asimov, Isaac

Atwood, Margaret

Austen, Jane

Austin Powers

author biography

author platform

Avatar

backstory

balance of power

Balzac, Honoré de

Batman v Superman

Beautiful Mind, A

Beowulf

beta reading   

Better Call Saul

Big Bang Theory, The

big idea stories

Bizet, Georges

Blade Runner

Blakemont, A.J.

Blind Assassin, The

blurb writing

book launch 

Book Thief, The

Bradbury, Ray

branding 

Brave New World

Brazil

Breaking Bad 

Brody, Jessica

Brontë, Emily

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Brown, Dan

Bruner, Jerome

Bruno, Giordano

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Burn Notice

burnout

Buroker, Lindsay

Business of Being a Writer, The

Butcher, Jim 

Call of Cthulhu, The

Call of the Wild, The

call to adventure

Campanella, Tommaso

Campbell, Jack

Campbell, Joseph  

Carmen

Carrie

Carson, Rachel

Casablanca

Catcher in the Rye, The

Chabon, Michael

Chaplin, Charlie

character arc  

Chicago Manual of Style, The

Chicken Run

Child, Lee

Chinatown

Christie, Agatha

Cid, Le

Cinderella

Citizen Kane

City & the City, The

City of the Sun, The

Clancy, Tom

Clarke, Susanna

clickthrough rate

cliffhanger

climax    

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

coaching

co-authoring

Coelho, Paulo

cognitive dissonance

cognitive effort

Collins, Suzanne

Columbo

commercial fiction

conflict     

Connelly, Michael  

conversion rate

copyright ownership

Coraline

Corey, James S.A.

Corneille, Pierre

Cornwell, Patricia

Count of Monte Cristo, The

cover design

Cowboy Bebop

Crichton, Michael

Crime and Punishment 

crisis   

Cron, Lisa

crowdfunding

crowdsourcing

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly

Da Vinci Code, The

da Vinci, Leonardo

Dante Alighieri

de Troyes, Chrétien

Defoe, Daniel

deus ex machina

developmental editing

Devil Wears Prada, The

Dexter

Dick, Philip K.

Dickens, Charles

Die Hard

digital piracy 

discoverability

Divine Comedy, The

dopamine

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Double Indemnity

double mumbo jumbo

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Dr. Strangelove

Dracula

dramatic potential 

dramatic tension   

Dresden Files, The

Dumb and Dumber

Easy Rider

Eco, Umberto

editing 

editorial assessment

Emma

empathy   

Empire Strikes Back, The 

Erin Brockovich

fabula

Fahrenheit 451

Fall of the House of Usher, The

fan base    

fan service

Faust

Fevre Dream

Field, Syd

Fifty Shades of Grey

first-person narration

fish out of water

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

five-act structure

flow state

Forrest Gump

fractals in storytelling

Frankenstein

Franklin, Benjamin

free content

Freytag, Gustav

Friedman, Jane 

Gaiman, Neil

Game of Thrones

genre blending

Germanic vs. Latinate words

Ghostbusters

ghostwriting

Girl on the Train, The

Girl You Left Behind, The

Gladiator

Godfather, The

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Golden Triangle of Storytelling, the

Goldfinch, The

Gone with the Wind

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Good Omens

Gothic: 250 Years of Success, The

grants

Great Expectations

Great Gatsby, The

Great Hack, The

Green Berets, The

Gremlins

Grisham, John

Gulliver’s Travels

Gunslinger, The

Gupta, Abhijita

hamartia

Hamilton, Laurell K.

Hamlet

Handmaid’s Tale, The

Harry Potter 

Hemingway, Ernest

Herbert, Frank

Hero with a Thousand Faces, The

Hero’s Journey   

Hitchcock, Alfred

hot niches

Howey, Hugh

Hunger Games, The

Hunt for Red October, The

Huxley, Aldous

Hyperion

immersion   

Inception

inciting incident   

income streams

Independence Day

Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

indie publishing

influencers   

information gaps

Inglourious Basterds

inspiration  

interactive storytelling

Interstellar

Interview with the Vampire

ISBN

Jaws

John Carter

Johnson, Samuel

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

journalism

Jurassic Park

Justice League

Kadrey, Richard

Kill Bill

Kill the Dead

kill your darlings

King Kong

King, Stephen 

Kingdom of Heaven

Kolbert, Elizabeth

Lady from Shanghai, The

Law & Order

Leckie, Ann

Lee, Harper

Leviathan Wakes

Lincoln Lawyer, The

line editing

literary fiction

literary prizes

Lord of the Rings, The  

Lost

Lost in Translation

Lovecraft, H.P.

Lucas, George

Lucifer

Macbeth

Magic Skin, The

mailing list 

Mandalorian, The

Mantel, Hilary

market assessment

market trends   

marketing strategies

Mars Attacks!

Martian, The

Martin, George R.R. 

Matrix Resurrections, The

Matrix, The

medical writing

Mentalist, The

mentorship

merchandise 

metadata

metaphors

metrics of success

Meyer, Stephenie

Micromégas

midpoint

Miéville, China

mindset 

Misery

Moby-Dick

Mona Lisa

Monk

monomyth

Monsters, Inc.

mood    

More, Sir Thomas

Moyes, Jojo

narrative distance

narrative perspective 

narrative transportation

Natural Laws of Story, The

networking   

neurochemicals

neuroscience

nonfiction      

North Star strategy

Ocean’s Eleven

Odyssey, The

Of Mice and Men

Office Space

Office, The

Old Man and the Sea, The

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

opening 

openness to new experiences

originality 

Orwell, George

Oryx and Crake

pacing  

Pamuk, Orhan

pantsers vs. plotters

Parris, S.J.

pen name

personal data protection

phonesthetics

Picture of Dorian Gray, The

Piemontese, Alessio

Pink Panther, The

Pirates of the Caribbean

Planet of the Apes, The

Plato

Platoon

plot outline

plot structure

plot twist 

Pocahontas

Poe, Edgar Allan

Poetics

popular themes 

Pratchett, Terry

Pride and Prejudice

proofreading

protagonist

Psych

Psychology of Optimal Experience, The

Pyramid of Creative Success

Quiz Show

Rabelais, François

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Rand, Ayn

rapid release

readability

reader magnet

relatable protagonist

resilience 

resolution  

Return of the Jedi

Revenge of the Sith

reviews

Rice, Anne

rising action 

Robinson Crusoe

Robots and Empire

Rocky

Romeo and Juliet

Rowling, J.K. 

Rushdie, Salman

Russian Formalists

sales funnels

Salinger, J.D.

Sanderson, Brandon

Sandman, The

Satanic Verses, The

Save the Cat!

scams

scene writing

Schindler’s List

Science of Storytelling, The

Scott, Ridley

Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting

Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont, The

self-doubt 

self-editing

self-publishing  

SEO

setting   

setup and payoff

Shakespeare, William 

Shawshank Redemption, The

Shelley, Mary

Sherlock

show, don’t tell

Signs

Silence of the Lambs, The

Silent Spring

similes

Simmons, Dan

Sixth Extinction, The

Skyfall

Snow

Snow White

Snyder, Blake

Social Dilemma, The

social media       

Song of Ice and Fire

Soul

Spider-Man

stakes   

Star Trek

Star Wars     

Star Wars: A New Hope

Stargate

Steinbeck, John

Storr, Will

story arc  

Story Genius

story types

story vs. plot

storygenic potential

strategic goals

subplot 

subscription models

subtext

Suits

Sunset Boulevard

superhumans

suspense

Swift, Jonathan

syuzhet

taglines

Tale of Two Cities, A

Tarantino, Quentin

target audience    

Tartt, Donna

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

themes vs. tropes

third-person limited narration

third-person omniscient narration

Thoreau, Henry David

three-act structure

Threshold Guardian

Time Machine, The

Titanic

title and subtitle

To Kill a Mockingbird

Tolkien, J.R.R.

tonal dissonance

tone    

Toy Story

traditional publishing 

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The

Twain, Mark

Twelve Angry Men

Twilight

Two Kinds of Truth

unconscious

unique selling point

universal themes 

upmarket fiction

Utopia

value proposition 

vanity metrics

video games 

Vogler, Christopher

Voltaire

vulnerabilities 

want vs. need

War and Peace

War of the Worlds, The

Weir, Andy

Who’s Who of the Brain

Wilde, Oscar

Wiseman, Richard

Witcher, The

Wizard of Oz, The

Wool

word of mouth

worldbuilding   

writer’s block

Writer’s Journey, The

Wuthering Heights

Wyrd Sisters

X-Files, The

Yiddish Policemen’s Union, The

Yorke, John

Zusak, Markus

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