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BBC Maestro

Storytelling

via BBC Maestro

Overview

Join Alan as he teaches you how to craft mesmerising stories, from finding compelling ideas to world-building for sci-fi and fantasy.
  • Become a better writer
  • Writing for different disciplines, from comics to poetry
  • Find original ideas for your story
  • Use powerful and inventive language
  • Perfect narrative structure and format
  • Embrace the tools of rhythm and rhetoric

Syllabus

  • Storytelling Introduction
  • Writing as enchantment
  • Becoming a writer
  • Four weapons
  • Learning to read
  • Imagination – fire of the gods
  • Language as technology
  • The neurology of writing
  • Hemingway vs. Baudelaire
  • Fascinating rhythm
  • Inventive language
  • Structure
  • Genre
  • Mode
  • Time and timing
  • Misdirection
  • Character
  • Extreme character
  • Place
  • Creating place
  • Period
  • Considering media
  • Comic cuts
  • Screen gems
  • Words, music and performance
  • Future media
  • The need for progress
  • Forward movements
  • Approaches to the future
  • Lost in the funhouse
  • The evolution of writing
  • Permission to write
  • Extroduction

Taught by

Alan Moore

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