A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling offers new writers a way to study and understand how popular novels, movies, and plays become successful.
A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling offers new writers a way to study and understand how popular novels, movies, and plays become successful.
A Story is a Promise offers a clear, concise look into the mechanics of how to tell a story and how a story engages and rewards the attention of an audience. Examples are used from popular books, movies, and plays, including a breakdown of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The Usual Suspects, and The Lovely Bones.
Deep Characterization explores what can happen when an authors creates characters who are an extension of the author's issues in life.
The Spirit of Storytelling focuses on how writers can transcend their personal issues when they write and give their story character fully realized internal lives. A section of the book titled Deep Characterization helps authors to realize if they've slipped into personal storytelling (meant to transport the author) in place of telling a story to an audience (with the goal of transporting the audience). A new essay titled Storytelling and the Superconscious Mind offers insights rarely offered by others.
For writers considering self-publishing, it offers great insights into how to revise a manuscript to reach its full potential.
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Bill Johnson is author of A Story is a Promise and The Spirit of Storytelling, a writing workbook. Bill's writing workbook reviews popular movies, novels and plays to explore principles.
His book helps writers learn how to write a novel or write a screenplay.
From an Amazon review: "You simply can't go wrong with this book. It's a goldmine of important information you really need to know if you want to infuse your work with all the right stuff. Get it. It's all good."
And, "I have never reviewed anything on Amazon before but I feel so indebted to Bill Johnson that I have to give him a review. I went to a big name film school for college and throughout the entire 4 years and thousands of dollars, I never learned more about storytelling then I did reading this 3 dollar kindle book. Bill Johnson really gives you the map to the maze."
Many new authors who struggle with storytelling are blamed for not understanding what they haven't been taught. A Story is a Promise offers a clear, deep understanding of the mechanics of storytelling.
Professional Reviews
Mindy Halleck
Bill Johnson is a master at understanding the how and why of creating characters. In A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling Johnson seamlessly pulls together key aspects of story-telling – from premise to promise, dramatic moments and dramatic truths – he gives the reader the necessary techniques to bring their stories into full bloom. Whether you’re stuck on enhancing your dialogue, plot or conflict there is a chapter to aid you in your story creation, recovery, or rescue. And for me, someone who needs examples, he uses plenty of examples and literary references which were most helpful.
This is a writer’s bible, and should be read and re-read until your storytelling is perfection, and as soon as you actually think that, you need to read it again. Love this book.
Crisis Management for First Responders is for first responders to be able to help victims of critical incidents as well as their own personnel who are affected by the trauma they witness or experience themselves.
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