A Story is a Promise and The Spirit of Storytelling offers new insights into how to construct and tell a story. It is a great resource for new writers and writers who are revising a finished novel, screenplay, or play. It can help new authors learn how to write a novel, and help writers who have finished a novel prepare it for self publishing.
A Story is a Promise and The Spirit of Storytelling offers new insights into how to construct and tell a story. It is a great resource for new writers and writers who are revising a finished novel, screenplay, or play. It can help new authors learn how to write a novel, and help writers who have finished a novel prepare it for self publishing.
Bill's work made me take a longer look at what matters to readers - and what matters to me as a reader - at the emotional core. I feel my characters are deeper and more memorable because of what I learned.
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- Nancy Hill
This book rises above the masses of books for writers promising to tell writers proven ways to write best sellers, snag an agent, land a contract, etc. It gets to the heart of why readers read books to begin with and what an author needs to do to honor his/her audience. I dare say it's a new way to look at the responsibilities of an author, which is, in itself, a novelty in the publishing world. While other writing books focus on how to fulfill a writer's dream of making it big, this book focuse
Bill Johnson is author of A Story is a Promise, a writing workbook, and The Combat Poets of Maya, a science fiction novel. He’s a produced playwright who has served for many years on the board of the Northwest Playwrights Guild. He’s the office manager for Willamette Writers, a non-profit writing group based in Portland, Oregon, with over 1,200 members. Bill leads workshops on writing around the United States. He reviews popular stories to explore principles of storytelling at his website, (www.storyispromise.com).
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