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Title: A Story is a Promise by Bill Johnson ISBN: 0-9673932-0-5 Publisher: Bill Johnson Publishing Pub. Date: June, 1997 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A profound and practical guide to writing powerful stories.
Comment: Numerous books have been written analysing the dramatic structure of stories: many are good; some are great. Here's another great one!
What Bill Johnson offers, in "A Story is a Promise", is an exciting new perspective on the ancient craft of story-telling. Exciting because not only does he explore our deep-rooted yearning for stories, but he explicates techniques to engage, sustain and fulfill the audience's emotional needs and expectations.
Every story, be it a short story, screenplay, novel or play, makes an implicit promise to the audience: 'Lend me your attention for ten minutes, two hours, or a week of your life and I promise you a satisfying vicarious experience of...adventure, romance, redemption...whatever. Johnson helps writers identify and design story elements that make good on this promise, that "concretely and visibly manifest the resolution of the story's promise" and allow the audience to share in the experience. His approach addresses story-telling from the broadest thematic level, or premise, down to individual word choice.
Bill Johnson 'promises' to help "unlock the mystery of creating compelling, engaging stories." He delivers!
Rating: 5
Summary: An enlightening tool for writers, readers and film buffs!
Comment: Someone finally has found a clear, concise, and - yes! This the best part - an even "interesting" way to make us understand more than the anatomy of stories, but what is their heart and soul. Through the use of examples and his step-by-step approach to both the logical and emotional sides of stories, Bill J. has come up with a true eye opener. His workbook brings the pleasure and appreciation of reading and writing stories (not to mention film) to a new level.
And he does it "simply". . . Like a conversation about mutual friends.
Stories are the friends. Clearly and easily he reveals to us their underlying nature, what he knows of them; how and why some are strong, and others weak. Where others preach dry theories and abstract notions, in his easy-to-follow, accessible fashion, he makes sense of the purpose, tools and meaning used in good storytelling.
Teachers should be glad to find here concrete, even alternate and contemporary manners of explaining its craft and nature. High-school and college students through reading it will awaken to a kinder, simpler approach to their reading and writing assignments - as well as a new enjoyment of what they read, write and watch. And writers . . . Well, writers and would-be writers alike will breathe nothing less than a sigh of relief; finally discovering new tools and paths around the proverbial "writer's block". Need I say more?
Only this: I wish I had read this book a long time ago, back even in my school days.
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Title: The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler ISBN: 0941188701 Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: 45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters by Victoria Schmidt ISBN: 1582970696 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: A Story Is a Promise: Good Things to Know Before You Write That Screenplay, Novel, or Play by Bill Johnson ISBN: 0936085614 Publisher: Blue Heron Pub Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life by Noah Lukeman ISBN: 0312309287 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Building Better Plots by Robert Kernen ISBN: 1582972664 Publisher: F&W Publications Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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