A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling

This 7th edition of Bill Johnson's writing workbook has three sections. A Story is a Promise explores the mechanics of how a story transports an audience. Deep Characterization explores what can happen when story characters are an extension of the author. The Spirit of Storytelling suggests techniques to create characters with fully realized inner lives.

Bill Johnson is author of A Story is a Promise and The Spirit of Storytelling, a writing workbook. Bill’s writing workbook reviews popular movies, novels and plays to explore principles of storytelling. His book helps writers learn how to write a novel or write a screenplay or play. From an Amazon review: ＂You simply can’t go wrong with this book. It’s a goldmine of important information you really need to know if you want to infuse your work with all the right stuff. Get it. It’s all good.＂ And, ＂I have never reviewed anything on Amazon before but I feel so indebted to Bill Johnson that I have to give him a review. I went to a big name film school for college and throughout the entire 4 years and thousands of dollars, I never learned more about storytelling then I did reading this 3 dollar kindle book. Bill Johnson really gives you the map to the maze.＂