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Tag Archives: storytelling
Aristotle, meet Paul. . . .
On Thursday, March 7, 2019, I reached a personal milestone: I finished reading the works of Aristotle. I read them mostly from the 2 volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World that contain his works: volumes 8 … Continue reading
Posted in book reviews, thoughts
Tagged Aristotle, Aristotle: Prior Analytics by Robin Smith, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Edward P.J. Corbett, Education, landmark books, liberal education, logic, Mortimer J. Adler, Organon, Paul's life, Philosophy, Poetry, politics, Prior Analytics, reading, rhetoric, storytelling, the Great Books, the Poetics, The Trivium by Sister Miriam Joseph
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The Odyssey odyssey, part 20
Here’s the latest installment of the spine-chilling tale of the creation and production of my 1990s TV series The Odyssey. If you want to start at the beginning, go here. Otherwise, read on! And if you have questions or observations, … Continue reading
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Tagged angela bruce, ashleigh aston moore, canadian broadcasting corporation, david pears, filming for tv, ilya woloshyn, janet hodgkinson, jay ziegler, jorge montesi, michael chechik, pilot episode, pilot script, ryan reynolds, scene 49, storytelling, the jellybean odyssey, the odyssey odyssey, tony sampson, tv series, versatile pacific shipyard, warren easton, watch out for weirdos, writing for tv
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The Odyssey odyssey, part 11
Here’s the latest installment of the spine-chilling tale of the creation and production of my 1990s TV series The Odyssey. If you want to start at the beginning, go here. Otherwise, read on! And if you have questions or observations, … Continue reading
Posted in the odyssey
Tagged angela bruce, canadian broadcasting corporation, dana carvey, hart hanson, ivan fecan, jay ziegler, lord of the flies, mad max, pilot script, ryan reynolds, scriptwriting, storytelling, the jellybean odyssey, the odyssey odyssey, warren easton, william golding, writing for children, writing for tv
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and the winner is . . .
Last Saturday night Kimmie and I finished watching my 1970s Film Festival. We have been watching my catalogue of top films, breaking them down by decade, and within each decade I’ve arranged the movies in alphabetical order (I always look … Continue reading
Posted in film reviews
Tagged 1970s, 1970s film festival, 1984, Best movie of the 1970s, Bo Goldman, Brave New World, Braveheart, Christopher Booker, Deliverance, Jack Nicholson, Ken Kesey, Lawrence Hauben, Louise Fletcher, Martin Scorsese, McMurphy, Milos Forman, Nineteen Eighty Four, Nurse Ratched, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Paul Schrader, storytelling, Taxi Driver, The Book of Job, The Godfather, The Seven Basic Plots, William Wallace
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developing a story
Once you’ve worked out what story is, it’s time to figure out how to write one. This part－developing a story－isn’t easy; for some of us, it can take longer than the natural human lifespan. But now, more than ever before, … Continue reading
Posted in writer's notes
Tagged American Graffiti, BlowUp, Don Quixote, fiction, Gulliver's Travels, Hannah and Her Sisters, It's a Wonderful Life, John Truby, landmark books, Nashville, Pulp Fiction, story, story movement, storytelling, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Anatomy of Story by John Truby, The Conversation, Tom Jones, Tristram Shandy, Ulysses, Vertigo, writing
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researching virtue and vice
If I have a sudden desire to investigate or study something, I try to act on it. I trust that the desire is coming from a good place, even if I don’t know exactly where that is or why it … Continue reading
Posted in thoughts
Tagged Angela Ackerman, Becca Puglisi, research, storytelling, Virtue & Vice
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“I Have No Mouth . . .”
I was a breech birth. Since then, I’ve done everything in life bass ackwards. A recent and relevant example of this is my education as a writer. Instead of first learning the craft of writing, and then studying up on … Continue reading
The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker: the templates for personal growth
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker My rating: 4 of 5 stars This massive, in-depth work presents a unified theory of the art of storytelling based on Jungian psychology. As I recall, this was another … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Booker, Jung, literary theory, literature, plot, storytelling
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The Complete Writer’s Guide to Heroes & Heroines by Tami D. Cowden, Caro LaFever, & Sue Viders: “people power” for writers
The Complete Writer’s Guide to Heroes and Heroines: Sixteen Master Archetypes by Tami D. Cowden My rating: 4 of 5 stars This apparently self-published handbook of character archetypes adds a powerful tool to the writer’s kit. As I recall, this … Continue reading
