Bill Johnson's A Story is a Promise offers a new paradigm for understanding one of the most difficult of all arts...writing dramatic, engaging stories. Step by step, the A Story is a Promise workbook guides readers to internalize the principle that underlies well-told stories, that a story is both a promise and a promise kept. Step by natural step it teaches how to set out a story's promise in an active voice...the storyteller's voice. This process transports writers to a new sense of clarity about how the interaction of the elements of stories -- character, plot, theme, action, conflict, resolution -- create the effect of dramatic fulfillment.
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A Story is a Promise is a journey of understanding into the craft of storytelling.
Each chapter of the workbook includes questions designed to help writers perceive how the different elements of a story intermesh.
The purpose of this workbook is not to replace other texts on writing, but to complement them, to add a deeper foundation of knowledge of the craft of writing. Many editors have found the workbook an invaluable tool in helping them to help other writers learn the craft of storytelling.A Story is a Promise is now
Paperback. $18.95 (reg. price) #ISBN 0-936085-61-4. Blue Heron Publishers