storytelling: sixth lecture
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Loneliness cannot be eluded
SIXTH LECTURE
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o …better than whatyour reader likes todo best
o …save your life
o …exactly that whatyou would write ifyou knew you’d die after writing its last sentence
YOUR STORY HAS TO BE…
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o…turn thereading into anexperience
o…writepassionately
o…write with full concentration
SO YOU, THE WRITER, HAS TO…
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A child cries
A child cries From fear of loneliness.
Go near it And fill its sleep with stories So that it will forget.
We have to learn to make friends with Loneliness: it cannot be eluded Through eating Or sex
It is a shadow Following us from morning onwards.
- Subagio Sastrowardoyo -
EXERCISE 1
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EXERCISE 1
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Write (a part of) a story that will help to elude loneliness.
Make this the best thing ever written – so that the reader will forgeteverything else.
o Write passionately and create a reading experience
o Show don’t tell!
o Write with your body!
o Choose consciously:• Storyteller
• Storytelling voice
• Focalisator(s)
• Place and time
PLACE AND MEANING
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What makes you happy?
1. Desire
2. Ability
3. Action
4. Consequences
REMEMBERl THE FOUR STAGES OF THE PLOT
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Six roles Main character A goal A reason Opponent(s) Helper(s) Someone who profitsFour stages Desire Ability Action Results
CHECKLIST FOR YOUR STORY
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EXERCISE 5
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Fill in the checklist for your story
o Be clearo Give your plot a
logical structureo Facts should be
correct (research!)o Your story must have
a pointo Your hero must have
a goalo 4 stages
DIRECT YOUR READER!
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o Writing is about passion, not about rules
o Writing well is sticking yourmiddle finger up to theworld, so also to the rulesof writing
o Don’t believe everything I tell you
BUT…
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