storytelling

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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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

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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

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S23E8 – Reverse, Reverse! Telling a Story Backwards

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. – Dorothea Lange

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