Storytelling

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

• 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