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How to Tell a Story to Save the World 2Toby Litt

Toby Litt — Thu, 13 May 2021 07:00:22 +0000

This time, I’m looking at two hugely influential screenwriting manuals – Syd Field’s Screenplay and Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey. Through the gap between them, we see the idea of heroism emerge and start to dominate the very idea of ‘a good story’. Like all film producers say, ‘The audience needs to knows who to [...]

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How to Tell a Story to Save the World 1Toby Litt

Toby Litt — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 06:42:51 +0000

In the next five months Writers Rebel is exclusively serialising Toby Litt’s How to Tell a Story to Save the World, a short book about storytelling, heroism, climate collapse and hope. Normally, when people come along to a creative writing class, they are hoping to learn how to write better stories, not how to [...]

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