Storytelling
Offered By: BBC Maestro
Course Description
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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