I'm working on a series of nonfiction books about story arts. The first book will just be an introduction to story arts called, "The Storyteller's Guidebook". To push myself to keep up on it, I've posting the chapters on the internet as I write them and using a chapter a week with my current drama class.

The idea behind the series is to show how a story project goes from conception to finished product. Story projects include such things as films, plays, computer games and theme park rides. The idea is that those medias are not completely different. Though there are differences, many things you learn about theatre craft also applies to film making and vice versa. And what you learn about both of those can apply to role playing, murder mystery parties, computer games, and such. Story arts is the discipline of learning to work with stories. The books will typically follow a standard path from conception to production. They'll start by teaching about creative thinking. From their we'll go into story elements such as character design, settings and story structure. Once the reader has learned about how to create a great story, the next chapters tell how to give life to the story through concept art and performance skills such as acting, dance and music. The last chapters will talk about how to add the final details to the story project through more technical things like lighting, set design and costuming.

The first book will be a general introduction to story arts. The idea is for later books to have a more specific theme. Some ideas being considered are;

The Storyteller's Guidebook to Horror
The Storyteller's Guidebook to Fairytales
The storyteller's Guidebook to Science Fiction
The storyteller's Guidebook to Steampunk
The storyteller's Guidebook to Mythology

and then maybe some more specific ideas

The Storyteller's Guidebook to The Iliad
The Storyteller's Guidebook to The Ramayana
The Storyteller's Guidebook to Middle Earth

The idea is that each book would go into more detail related to the given topic and also the other chapters would be themed to the topic. So for example in "The Storyteller's Guidebook to the Ramayana," when you get to the chapter about dance it would teach about an ancient Indian style of dance while the dance chapter in "The Storyteller's Guidebook to Gothic Horror," would teach about waltz.
So here's what we have so far;
Chapter 1 - Creative Thinking
Chapter 2 - Designing Characters
Chapter 3 - Building a Universe
Chapter 4 - Story Structure