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Storytelling in all of its forms
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We want your words — but not about words
We want your words.
But not about words.
In Robert McKee’s Story, he distinguishes between literary talent and story talent.
Literary talent. The creative conversion of ordinary language into a higher more expressive form, vividly describing the world and capturing its human voices. Literary talent is common.
The second is story talent — the creative conversion of life itself to a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. It seeks out the inscape of our days and reshapes it into a telling that enriches life.
The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.
Our focus is storytelling — taking life, characters, images, sounds, and conflicts and arranging them to create emotional impact.
For novels, we welcome discussions about beats, characters, and structure. Story and theme are fair game. However, we aren’t interested in an analysis of the language of novels or short stories.
If we discuss action description in screenplays, we’ll treat it like story: tone, theme, mood, and pacing. We…
