The Genre Writer’s Masterclass

This book teaches story structure as a single system. It builds a shared vocabulary first (the four dimensions, the sequence spine, and genre and trope as reader contracts), then walks each major genre as a specialization of that same spine. Read straight through it’s a course; consulted one chapter at a time it’s a reference. Every chapter recasts the underlying reference library losslessly, so the fine craft detail survives intact while the prose reads as a guided path.