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What is the Price of Experience?Writers Rebel

XR Writers Rebel — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:58:38 +0000

Today Writers Rebel took action against the Institute of Economic Affairs. We made this statement about why we did so. We choose the Institute of Economic affairs because its work is encouraging those politicians and fossil fuel companies who are right now leading us to a cliff edge. Its utterances constantly deny the [...]

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Q&A with Margaret AtwoodToby Litt

Margaret Atwood and Toby Litt — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 07:00:48 +0000

This interview took place on Thursday 24th March 2022. The wonderful Margaret Atwood was in London for an event at the Royal Festival Hall, promoting Burning Questions, her new book of essays and occasional pieces. She spoke with Toby Litt, editor of the Writers Rebel website. TL: Thank you for talking to us. [...]

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How to Tell a Story to Save the WorldToby Litt

Toby Litt — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:00:58 +0000

As a Christmas gift, from Writers Rebel to you, all the five chapters of the writing manual that Toby Litt wrote for Writers Rebel are here, downloadable as a pdf. How to Tell a Story to Save the World by Toby Litt for Writers Rebel [...]

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How to Tell a Story to Save the World 5Toby Litt

Toby Litt — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 07:00:11 +0000

In this final couple of chapters, we find some signs of resistance to the dominance of Heroism in two of the most successful films of all time. AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR 2018 and AVENGERS: ENDGAME 2019 Unlikely as it may seem, the two recent Avengers films give signs of possible hope. (I’m going [...]

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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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