STORY QUESTIONS: How To Unlock Your Story One Question At A Time (PDF)

What if the only thing standing between you and a great story… are the right questions?

Did you know that a writer can ask themselves 400+ questions (often 1000+) to write a novel or screenplay?

Professional writers understand that the writing process is an act of deep curiosity. They ask a ton of questions from start to finish.

This tells us that having access to thought-out, carefully crafted questions could be a powerful story tool for writers to have.

Our premise is that if you write your questions down and answer them, you will begin the process of writing a story.

In other words… once you ask enough of the right questions… and answer them by using a combination of your imagination, creativity, and deep personal memories… you will have a story.

Here are some of the benefits you will get from this book...

1) It will save you time. We spent many months compiling these questions and organizing them. Now you can have them at your fingertips whenever you want.

2) Over 1500 story questions you can use as story prompts.

3) Questions put into 41 categories to help you no matter what stage of the writing process you are in.

4) Categories that include everything from helping you figure out your voice, brainstorming ideas, building the story world, developing the main character and supporting characters, the dilemma, writing better scenes, dialogue, the rewriting process and a lot more.

5) This is a tool you can use every time you write.

6) These questions can help you think like a storyteller.

7) These questions can help you get unstuck.

8) And these questions can help you write better stories.

Here is a sample question from the book. Try it out and see for yourself. Write the following question down and spend a few minutes answering it.

"What if you remove every scene from this story except the intro of the main character… and the final scene with the main character… how do they contrast one another?"

Over the last 15 years in building our Film Courage YouTube Channel and interviewing hundreds of screenwriters, filmmakers, authors, teachers and storytellers we've learned about the building blocks of great stories. We have also spent countless hours thinking up questions to ask our guests.

With this book, we've merged our story knowledge and our passion for questions. One could say this book has been years in the making. We've put this story tool together with the hopes of helping writers write their best stories.

Our best,

David and Karen

(if you have trouble at checkout, have feedback, or questions, please contact us at storyquestionsbook@gmail.com)

"It’s really as a thank you for Film Courage that I bought the book—imagine my surprise when I started reading and nearly immediately felt the tingling creative spidey senses coursing through my fingers!" - Chris M.