Don't forget the grand daddy of all Hollywood story telling structure: Robert McKee.
http://mckeestory.com/
Never met anyone more full of himself, but his classes are legendary.
Mark
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jim Feeley <jfeeley@...> wrote:
>
> > > Can't I just follow Hemingway on Facebook or Twitter
> >
> Sure. This (apocryphal) Hemingway story fits in a tweet:
>
> For sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn.
>
>
> Back on topic, one of the best books I've seen on storytelling is
> Writing for Story by Jon Franklin. OK, it's about dramatic nonfiction
> writing, but Franklin has won two Pulitzer prizes (for feature and
> expository journalism) and has been a j-school prof for a long time.
> He knows what he's talking about and knows how to talk about it.
>
> The book takes the old complication-resolution story structure and
> applies it to nonfiction. Lots of emphasis on structure, pacing, and
> stuff that applies as well to film/video as to text. Or so it seems to
> me. An eminently practical book.
>
> Note that I haven't read it in many years, but I think upon re-
> reading, my opinion would remain the same.
>
> Jim "wishes some films were six words long" Feeley
>
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