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A third edition of A Story is a Promise is now available for $19.95 by sending a check to Bill Johnson Script Consulting, 318 SW Palatine Hill Rd., Portland, OR 97219. This new edition has a section titled Deep Characterization. This process explores how some writers struggle because they create main characters who are an extention of themselves.
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| About the Author |
a new, dynamic process for understanding stories
by Bill Johnson
A Story is a Promise & Deep Characterization offers a new paradigm for understanding one of the most difficult of all arts...writing dramatic, engaging stories.
Step by step, the A Story is a Promise & Deep Characterization workbook guides readers to internalize the principle that underlies well-told stories, that a story is both a promise and a promise kept to a story's audience.
Step by natural step it teaches how to set out a story's promise in an active voice...the storyteller's voice, and how to recognize when a story has become captive to acting out a storyteller's personal issues.
This process transports writers to a new sense of clarity about how the interaction of the elements of stories -- character, plot, theme, action, conflict, resolution -- create the effect of dramatic fulfillment for a story's audience.
"I love your essays--of all the articles, books, and tutorials
I've read, these are the best as far as clarity and content.
Thank you for providing such a wonderful resource."
A Story is a Promise & Deep Characterization is a journey of understanding into the craft of storytelling.
Each chapter of the workbook includes questions designed to help writers perceive how the different elements of a story intermesh.
The purpose of this workbook is not to replace other texts on writing, but to complement them, to add a deeper foundation of knowledge of the craft of writing.
Many editors have found the workbook an invaluable tool in helping them to help other writers learn the craft of storytelling.
A Story is a Promise & Deep Characterization is available using this PayPal link. The cost of $19.95 includes media mail shipping in the United States.
To buy the book with International Shipping (cost, $27.95), use this PayPal link.
A Story is a Promise: On DVD
On this one-hour DVD Bill Johnson reads from a number of well-known books
and talks about several popular movies to take viewers into the heart of
what a story is, a promise made to an audience, and a promise kept.
This DVD includes examples and diagrams (not available in the workbook) to help writers understand whether a sentence is dramatically suggestive, too obvious, or obscure. There are also diagrams that help explore the role of conflict in a story.
Cost: The DVD is $15.99, which includes shipping and handling in the US. Add $3 for shipping internationally.
To order this DVD, send your check to:
Bill Johnson Script Consulting
318 SW Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR 97219
produced by:
Galaxy Productions, Inc
Digital Video, Editing & Duplication
www.viewgalaxy.com