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The universal grammar of story : an author's guide to writing for the soul of the world / Hazel Denhart.

by Denhart, Hazel, author.

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Seattle, WA : The Invisible Press, ©2019.

Fiction -- Authorship.

Fiction -- Technique.

Creative writing.

Narration (Rhetoric)

9781936262014 (paperback)

1936262010 (paperback)

xiii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Part one: The call to write. The personal call -- The social call: Being ahead of your time ; A brief review of modernity ; A brief review of postmodernity ; The wire mesh momma -- The mythological call -- Thinking in balance: Thinking in a logical frame ; Thinking in an emotional frame ; Thinking in an intuitive frame ; Logical, emotional, and intuitive frames on a societal level. Part two: The power of language. Awakening to language: Written English as a foreign language ; Getting into the conversation ; Brain waves literature -- Delilah's scissors: Bonsai language ; Listening into the deep beginning. Part three: The core narrative theories. The plot situation -- Oppostition and conflict: Egri takes Heraclitus and Hegel to the theatre ; Transformation; the hero-villain theory of convergence ; The sacred role of villainy -- Story chemistry: The state of affairs ; The challenge ; The dramatic question ; The climax -- The structure of timing: The introduction ; The point of no return ; The doldrums ; The midpoint reversal of fortunes ; All hope is lost ; The miracle ; Conclusion of the core theories. Part four: The philosophy and mythology of storytelling. Joseph Campbell's hero's journey: Departure ; Initiation ; Return -- Conclusion of Joseph Campbell's hero's journey -- A moment in heaven with Aldous Huxley: The divine is everywhere ; The divine cannot be described ; All saints have the same personality ; Good deeds do not bring salvation ; Destruction follows arrogance ; Creativity yields both good and bad ; Self-punishment is easier than ego release ; Power knows no restraint ; Cleverness becomes the enemy ; Three faces of grace ; Evil is not moving toward God ; None may suffer in place of another ; Conclusion of A moment in heaven with Aldous Huxley. Conclusion: A confession, a concession, and a beg your pardon ; Casting the logos. appendices: Core story summaries: Appendix one: Summary of Oedipus ; Appendix two: Summary of Beowulf ; Appendix three: Summary of Hamlet. Acknowledgments ; Art series abstractions ; Bibliography ; Index.

"To reach the heart of a great story, writers must cross the treacherous terrain of personal, social and mythological urgings aching for release. To help writers navigate the chaos and disorder of a story's arrival, this guide brings forth a legendary compass built of the creative wisdom of our literary ancestors and calibrated to the brilliant teachers of our time. The Universal Grammar of Story is an essential theory of storytelling revealing precisely which elements trigger a story to suddenly manifest out of a mass of prose, and how the most basic and subtle arrangement of these elements determines success or failure. Powerful cultural and philosophical insight blend into these pages with intricate technical instruction that empowers writers while reminding them that stories have consequences. Drawing on vignettes from her most unusual life, Hazel Denhart brings forth a lively reference that will continue to offer fresh and energizing insight decade after decade throughout a writer's career. "--back cover.

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