Writers

Storytelling — get out of the way

by Bill Wren on November 14, 2010

With the indifference of weather, he shot the child and kept walking. I’ve mentioned before that far too often we’re focused on writing rather than storytelling. I refer to writing because that is what I do, but this is applicable to all forms of storytelling – written, verbal, film, etc. Our writing gets in the [...]

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Benefits and hazards of description

by Bill Wren on October 29, 2010

Description in a story can be a tricky thing. With words, it paints an image in a reader’s mind. However, done to excess it puts a reader to sleep. I call them word pictures and, as with all pictures, some are good and some are not. As an example, you might write something like, “There [...]

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Always fascinated by story

by Bill Wren on October 27, 2010

(This is a repost of something I wrote in 2006. I have long since finished reading the book referred to. In fact, I’ve reread it since. It’s very good. By the way, this is not really a review; it’s a first impressions piece.) I’m currently reading Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting [...]

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Master storyteller – Robert Louis Stevenson

by Bill Wren on October 16, 2010

If you want someone to model yourself after as a storyteller, go to Robert Louis Stevenson. Now that guy could tell stories. Many writers, like myself, make the mistake of writing. I’ve done that and still find myself doing it. We need to stop writing and get on with telling the story. It’s the story [...]

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This is what I have been doing

by Bill Wren on July 20, 2010

It seems wrong to say I haven’t posted anything this week because I’ve been busy — it’s Tuesday! But in many ways this is more like Thursday to me since I spent the weekend working. And a lot of that work is in the half-baked stage. But some isn’t … Creative energy I have a [...]

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