This ixīook is about the midwifery that makes this happen. In order to develop your creativity and individual “voice” you will need to access, value, and build upon what you carry within. Doing this well means first looking inward.
RAPID SKETCH GARAGE PROFESSIONAL
My half-century of professional involvement with storytelling and storytellers has convinced me that each person is deeply marked by key experiences, and so each has moving stories to tell. Stories are the oxygen of civilization and the elixir of sanity and wisdom we must both hear them and tell them if we are to survive and prosper. Humans have always done this through telling and listening to stories. But we come into possession of ourselves only if we connect-emotionally, imaginatively, and spiritually-with others. Most schooling concentrates on facts, objectivity, and rote memorization, and this makes self-exploration seem indulgent and irrelevant. Academic education compounds the problem by herding us into large, competitive, and impersonal institutions. We become selfconscious and self-critical. A book like this is necessary because telling stories-so natural and easy for the very young-gets more difficult as we grow up.
RAPID SKETCH GARAGE MANUAL
The story development work all takes place in outline form, so critique and further work really bear fruit, for this is a workout manual in ideation- that is, in finding and developing the core ideas and the personal connections that underpin all good stories and lend them impact. Though addressed to prospective screenwriters, the book’s work is foundational and can lead just as easily to projects in prose fiction, theater, radio, or journalism. Using minimal jargon and speaking directly to you as a colleague, its advice and many practical assignments will help you generate a fund of your own story ideas-and have great pleasure doing it. If you like writing but get frustrated by characters who refuse to come alive, plots that fizzle, or story ideas that all feel secondhand, this book will prove exhilarating and freeing. Testing a Story Idea and Deciding Point of View SELF-EXAMINATION, OBSERVATION, AND IMPROVISATION ASSIGNMENTSĭeveloping Your Characters and the Dramatist’s Toolkit This Book, Its Goals, and Getting Started Working together to grow libraries in developing countries | | In fond memory of Lois Deacon, who said, “Nothing is real until I have written about it.” ISBN 13: 978-6-2 ISBN 10: 6-7 For information on all Focal Press publications visit our website at 05 Title PN1996.R16 2005 808.2⬘3 - dc22īritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rabiger, Michael. Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone: (⫹44) 1865 843830, fax: (⫹44) 1865 853333, e-mail: You may also complete your request on-line via the Elsevier homepage (), by selecting “Customer Support ” and then “Obtaining Permissions.” Recognizing the importance of preserving what has been written, Elsevier prints its books on acid-free paper whenever possible. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. TOKYO Focal Press is an imprint of ElsevierĪcquisitions Editor: Elinor Actipis Project Manager: Dawnmarie Simpson Associate Editor: Becky Golden-Harrell Assistant Editor: Robin Weston Marketing Manager: Christine Degon Cover Design: Eric Decicco Focal Press is an imprint of Elsevier 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Inc.
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