STORY ENGINEERING by LARRY BROOKS

Author:LARRY BROOKS
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epub, ebook
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2011-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

ARCHITECTURE — THE METAPHOR

Let's examine the more common meaning of these two terms, this time in context to the building and construction trade. Structure is the foundation, girders, support beams, and floor plan that allow a building to stand upright. To support weight. Structure can be, and often is, bland and without art, completely void of heart and soul. Like an empty warehouse or your local DMV office. Nobody applies the term architecture to those places.

Architecture describes, at least in this metaphoric context, the artful aesthetic of a building. It is construction — notice here that structure and construction have the same root word: the Latin term structura, which is to heap up, to build — enhanced by a host of beautiful elements and adornments, from arching doorways sculpted with scrolled designs and carvings to sweeping stairways with metallic accents and surfaces laced with designs and images and textures, all of it adorned with alluring lighting and well-placed works of art, embraced with landscaping and spiced with color. And the occasional gargoyle.

All houses are structures. But only a few are architecturally designed houses. Those are the ones that end up on the covers of magazines.

Which is precisely where you want your story to end up. In other words … published. Only architecturally designed stories get published.

The aesthetic sum of these parts is art itself. All of it beginning with a structure that was nothing more than a floor plan overlaid onto a solid foundation.

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