Story Structure Book 1 Cover Poll

I spent most of last night Building the Non-Fiction Writers Room with a whole new cast of characters and tested it with writing two very different books on the same subject. I had all of the research ready and built a researcher into the tool to fill in the gaps.

The following is the news release created for the two books - Please stay till the bottom of this post.

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Two Books. Same Nine Structures. Completely Different Books.

DragonWorks Publishing has just released two companion volumes on story structure for fiction writers using AI assistance. They cover the same nine structural frameworks. They approach them from completely different angles. Here's what each one does and how they work together.

"Structure First: Write Like You Mean It A New Writer's Guide to Story Structure and AI-Assisted Fiction"

This is the foundation book. It's written for any fiction writer — with or without the Professional Writing System — who wants to understand how story structure works and how to use AI as a collaborator rather than a ghostwriter.

The book opens with an honest argument: AI is a nail gun, and a nail gun doesn't know what a house is. You do. Before you prompt anything, you need to understand what readers come to fiction to feel, what structure actually delivers, and where AI fits in a human-led creative process.

From there, it teaches all nine structures from the ground up — plain-English concept explanations, emotional contracts with the reader, worked examples from recognizable stories, fill-in worksheets to complete before prompting, simplified prompt libraries, and quick-start prompts ready to paste. Reading level is deliberately accessible. Every term is defined. Nothing is assumed.

Best for: First-time fiction writers, writers new to AI assistance, anyone who wants a complete standalone craft reference they can use with any AI tool.

"The Anarchist's Guide to Story Structure For Writers Using the Professional Writing System"

This is the decision book. It covers the same nine structures — but doesn't re-teach them. Instead it asks a different question: given your story, your working style, and your reader's needs, which structure do you actually choose — and what are you agreeing to by choosing it?

"Anarchist" doesn't mean ignore structure. It means no single structure is sacred. Every structure is a trade-off. The book opens by explaining what every structure costs (not just what it gives), maps exactly how your structural decision travels through the PWS pipeline and which personas engage with it at each phase, then runs a diagnostic framework to narrow the candidate structures for any given story. Part Three handles the cases that don't fit cleanly: genuinely experimental work, hybrid structures, and freeform drafting — with named author examples and honest accounting of what each approach demands.

Best for: PWS users at any experience level who want to make structural decisions deliberately rather than by default, and who want to know how to work with specific PWS personas around structural questions.

How They Work Together

Structure First teaches you what each structure is. The Anarchist's Guide teaches you which one to pick and what it will cost you. One is the concept manual; the other is the decision framework. A writer who reads both gets the complete picture — deep structural knowledge from the first book and the selection discipline to apply it from the second.

Both books are part of the PWS Companion Library from DragonWorks Publishing.

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Yes DragonWorks Publishing is also me and there are some interesting things percolating there for this group when we get closer to the first 100 members.

The Poll below is for the cover design of the first book. I'll post the second one when I get those designs. Whichever cover has the highest number of votes becomes the cover on Friday 4/17/26. BOTH books will be available on Amazon, in the classroom, and on gumroad.

Now the best part ALL current members on Friday get both books for free!

I'm also doing a recruitment competition. So whomever brings in the most users this week will get the Nonfiction writers Room and the Book Reporter Skills for free. If someone brings in more than ten new users I'll throw in the Short-Story-Studio as well and a private call with me on any topic you want. Share this link: https://www.skool.com/pws-community-for-writers-8447/about and you or whomever you recruit just needs to send me a message about it so you get credit for them.

as always comment and discuss below. Thank you all for sticking with us!

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