This new edition of Bill Johnson's writing workbook has three sections, each designed to help new and experienced authors alike to better understand the craft of storytelling. A Story is a Promise explores the mechanics of how a story transports an audience. It offers great advice about story structure to new authors and authors doing revisions. Deep Characterization explores what happens when story characters are an extension of authors. Any author who has been told their novel's minor characters were more interesting than a main character need to read this material. The Spirit of...