storytelling

S44E1 – Plot: Before Act 1

Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn’t tell you how to write your book, but it helps you understand why things aren’t working, or what kind of beat needs to come next. – Marcus Sakey

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S43E1 – Characters: The Sidekick

There is something inherently hopeful in unlikely friendships, I think. It speaks to our ability to surprise and connect – and how, in all the ways that matter, we are not really that different. – Emily Spurr

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S35E6 – The Problem with Annoying Main Characters

Think of your main characters as dinner guests. Would your friends want to spend ten hours with the characters you’ve created? Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but they’d better be compelling. ― Po Bronson

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S31E5 – Journalistic Storytelling

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct an interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there. – Isabel Allende

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S31E4 – Stories in Advertising and Commercials

Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising. – Jef I. Richards

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S24E7 – The Creation of Monster Fiction

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. – Stephen King

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S24E6 – Fairy Tales and Bedtime Stories

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. – C.S. Lewis

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S23E5 – Shakespeare and the Printing Press

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players – William Shakespeare

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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

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