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Why Stories Stall (and How to Fix Them)

Why do some scenes pull us effortlessly into the next, while others seem to sit stubbornly on the page? In Why Stories Stall (and How to Fix Them), Leslie Bradford-Scott introduces a practical framework for diagnosing what’s gone wrong when a story loses momentum.

Using her Railcar, Coupling, and Subjectivity method, she breaks scenes down into three essential elements: the main event that gives the scene something to be about, the cause-and-effect connections that propel the story forward, and the character’s subjective experience that gives those events meaning.

Writers will learn how to spot what’s missing in a flat or stalled scene and, more importantly, how to fix it.

The goal is a simple, repeatable craft tool writers can take home and apply immediately to their own work.

Leslie Bradford-Scott is an award-winning writer, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of “The Liar’s Playbook,” a memoir of family and crime.

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