A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling

by Bill Johnson
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Publish Date: April 08, 2011
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A Story is a Promise offers a deep look into the mechanics of how to tell a story and how a story engages and rewards the attention of an audience. Examples are used from popular books, movies, and plays. The Spirit of Storytelling focuses on how writers can transcend their personal issues when they write and give story characters fully realized internal lives.

Author Information

Bill Johnson

Bill Johnson is author of A Story is a Promise and The Spirit of Storytelling, a writing workbook, and web master of Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing, a site that explores principles of storytelling through reviews of popular movies, books and plays (storyispromise.com). He's taught writing workshops around the U.S. He has read manuscript submissions for literary agents. His afterlife play, The Baggage Handler, was chosen as one of the best ten minute plays and published by Smith and Kraus. Bill is currently office manager for Willamette Writers, a Pacific Northwest non-profit writing group with 1,600 members.

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