S24 Bonus – How Film Impacted Storytelling
The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle. Audiences are harder to please if you’re just giving them special effects… but they’re easy to please if it’s a good story. – Steven Spielberg
Writing Roots
S24E7 – The Creation of Monster Fiction
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. – Stephen King
S24E6 – Fairy Tales and Bedtime Stories
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. – C.S. Lewis
S23E5 – Shakespeare and the Printing Press
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players – William Shakespeare
S24E4 – Educational Storytelling and the Use of Theater
That’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again. – Walt Disney
S24E3 – Introduction of Man vs. Man and Character Arcs
At the heart of every story is conflict. Whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed. – Jennifer McMahon
S24E2 – Stories of Gods and Fate
Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say – when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be. – The Odyssey
S24E1 – Storytelling in Prehistoric Times
Story, as it turns out, was crucial to our evolution – more so than opposable thumbs. Opposable thumbs let us hang on; story told us what to hang on to. – Lisa Cron
S23E9 – Choose Your Adventure
I wish it need not have happened in my time.
So do I and so do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. – J.R.R. Tolkein
S23 Bonus – Episodic and Serial Stories
Because it’s episodic, you can explore any area because you have time to do that. You can take risks on the kinds of storytelling that you’re doing. – Seth Gabel