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Title: A Story Is a Promise : Good Things to Know Before You Write That Screenplay, Novel, or Play
Publisher: Blue Heron Publishing
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0936085614
ISBN 13: 9780936085616
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st.
Condition: Good
Weight: 0.68 pounds

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A Story is a Promise offers a fresh new model for mastering the elusive art of writing dramatic and engaging stories. In order to illustrate its major principles, the book includes reviews and analyses of over a dozen popular films, novels, and plays. Complete with prompts and questions at the end of each chapter, A Story is a Promise can be used as a workbook to help writers internalize the principle that underlies all well-told stories: that a story should be a promise and that a promise should be kept. The inclusion of familiar examples makes this book accessible and useful to all writers of fiction, plays, and screenplays.

Bill Johnson has been using the manuscript of A Story is a Promise in his workshops for years. Many editors also use the workbook to teach blossoming writers the craft of storytelling.

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Bill Johnson, author of A Story is a Promise, has worked as a freelance writer, a script developer for both Tom Shaw Productions and Figawi Films, and as a staff writer for Aurion Productions. A number of his plays have been produced and performed as staged readings, and he has edited scripts that were sold to and optioned by Columbia Pictures. Currently, he works as the office manager for Willamette Writers, the largest writers group in Oregon. He also travels throughout the Northwest to lead workshops on dramatic writing techniques for fiction writers, screenwriters, and playwrights. This past summer, he served as a judge for the play-writing category of Writer s Digest s annual writing competition. He is a member of the Northwest Playwrights Guild and currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

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