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A Story is a Promise: Good Things to Know Before Writing a Novel, Screenplay or Play

by Bill Johnson

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A Story is a Promise uses a workbook approach to guide writers toward a new understanding of the process of creating and writing dramatic stories — exploring how a story functions like a promise and how to fulfill a story's promise to its audience. This book is based on the Johnson's popular workshops of the same name.

A Story is a Promise is a journey of understanding into the craft of storytelling designed to help bring writers forth with passion, feeling, and dramatic clarity the stories they conceive in their minds and heart.

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ISBN:
9780936085616
Subtitle:
(good things to know before you write that screenplay, novel, or play )
Author:
Johnson, Bill
Publisher:
Blue Heron Publishing Inc
Location:
Portland, Or.
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Composition & Creative Writing - Play/Scriptwriting
Subject:
Rhetoric
Subject:
Authorship
Subject:
Composition & Creative Writing - Fiction
Subject:
Narration (rhetoric)
Subject:
Narration
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
1
Publication Date:
c2000
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 187 p.
Dimensions:
8.55x5.54x.63 in. .55 lbs.
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