A long time ago I wanted to be an author. Nothing has really changed about that - I still want to write a novel one day - but at the moment I'm concentrating on story through film. Either way, wanting to be an author is how I started learning about the art of Storytelling, so naturally I learned story structure from authors. Book authors however, aren't the only people out there with tips on how to tell a good story.
Here are a few links to the people I've learned a lot from, and who I believe have really valuable tips on storytelling.
Holly Lisle
John Brown
Writing Excuses
Story Fanatic
Script Shadow
Francis Glebas
Ideas for the Animated Short
And this.
Rochelle, you are SOOO like me, this is crazy.
ReplyDeleteI have TONS of beginning of novels that I wrote when I was in my teens and that I keep in a big file in my drawer. I kept mimicking the style of JK Rowling, because then I used to read the Harry Potter books incessantly.
But then movies came into view, and storytellng and filmmaking began to mix with each other. Seriouly, what better job than story artist to play with all that stuff ?
By the way, I'm looking forward to your next posts ! This blog is a really cool initiative.
Also, just wanted to share some of my own links :
ReplyDelete- Brian McDonald's Invisible Ink : http://invisibleinkblog.blogspot.com/ (he litterally changed the way I think about movies and storytelling)
- The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri : http://www.amazon.com/Art-Dramatic-Writing-Creative-Interpretation/dp/1163161586/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310122413&sr=1-1
- Andrew Stanton : Understanding Story or my Journey of Pain (http://rageagainstthepage.blogspot.com/2008/12/andrew-stanton-pixar-transcript-keynote.html)
Hahaha! Thanks for the links!
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