As promised but later than planned, the companion video to begin my Art of the Storyteller series.
Again I present the idea of the essential differences between writers and storytellers and challenge thought on the idea that storytelling is something we don't learn but find in ourselves. Technically perfect writing will not earn you a spot on the best seller lists. Storytelling by itself will not get your novel launched to interstellar heights. Combined though...achieving the balance between skillful writing and excellent storytelling...well. If your dialogue can seem real and your characters likewise. If your prose can ooze tension and flow. If your passages leap and are vibrant. If you can transform a dream into words and, by your skill, transfer that dream into the minds of others, then you are there.
Here, in this video, I discuss what I believe the art of the storyteller to entail. I think that the key is dialogue because that is how we identify, individualise and develop our characters. "It's all in how they say it" as I heard it told by a true master of the craft, "do the voices, in your head or out loud but do them, that's how you'll know who's who. If you don't know, how're they [the readers] going to?"
Part 1 of the Art of the Storyteller series of videos and blog entries. A series which will take as long as I need it to! Next week we have the Art of Location, how where the character is influences greatly how they act. How to describe your locations from your character's point of view.
See you all next week!
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