
Crafting Story Movement
Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward
Kathryn Craft(Author)
Craft on Craft LLC (Publisher)
Published on 7. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
979-8-9991425-1-1 (ISBN)
Description
As a writer, you want to move your readers-to tears, to laughter, to dread, to wonder. To usher them beyond their lived experience so they can view life from a new perspective. To make their heart leap and their soul dance.
CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward is a writing craft guide that shows you how to create emotional storytelling, build reader immersion, and design a novel with irresistible momentum.
Guided by examples from masters across genres-and inspired by the author's background as a dance critic and developmental editor-you'll discover:Fiction pacing techniques that keep readers turning pages
Story movement strategies to sustain narrative momentum
Character-driven storytelling tools to make readers care
Ways to connect with readers on a visceral, emotional level
How to choreograph scene-to-scene flow so every beat matters
Whether you're writing high-stakes suspense, tender romance, or thought-provoking literary fiction, this book offers the shift in perspective that will help you claim the power of movement in fiction-and write a novel that lingers in your readers' hearts long after "The End."
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
537 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-9991425-1-1 (9798999142511)
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Kathryn Craft is the award-winning author of two novels from Sourcebooks, The Art of Falling and The Far End of Happy. Her two-decade tenures as dancer/choreographer, dance critic for The Morning Call newspaper in Allentown, PA, and freelance developmental editor have merged to inform her perspective about story movement. Building on her bachelor's and master's degrees in education, it has been her great joy to share the craft of writing by mentoring novelists, most recently through her Your Novel Year program, and by speaking at dozens of venues where people thirst to write, from writing groups, conferences, and libraries to in-patient rehabs and grief support groups. She lives with her husband in Doylestown, PA.