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Crafting Story Movement : Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward - Kathryn Craft

Crafting Story Movement

Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward

By: Kathryn Craft, Donald Maass (Foreword by), Donna Cunningham (Designed by)

Paperback | 7 October 2025

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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."

Industry Reviews

"Kathryn Craft's background in dance and choreography adds a delightful and fresh insight into developing characters, emotions, and story structure."

-Shelley Noble, New York Times bestselling author

"Crafting Story Movement is a welcome, hands-on guide for fiction writers in any genre." 

-James Scott Bell, Write Your Novel from the Middle 

"A remarkable book with a stunningly unique perspective."

-Julie Maloney, founder of Women Reading Aloud

"The author's talent of drilling into the heart of notable books to explain what works and why is a gift every author, no matter their aptitude, will treasure."

-Barbara Conrey, USA Today bestselling author

"With Crafting Story Movement, Kathryn brings insight, common sense, experience, and a sense of joy to the process of writing a novel." 

-Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author

"You'll never experience your own narrative quite the same way again."

-Therese Walsh, editorial director of Writer Unboxed

"I already know I will keep this guide by my side as I write my next novel!"

-Nancy Johnson, bestselling author

"Few are the writing guides that can teach old dogs new tricks. Crafting Story Movement is one of them-and one of the best."

-David Corbett, author of The Art of Character

"A compelling how-to guide for novelists at all levels to devour, absorb, reread and savor."

-Terez Mertes Rose, author of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles

"Craft delivers her advice in a motivating voice that made me itch to get back to writing!"

-Lainey Cameron, award winning author

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