More Stories, Creative Writing Podcast

More Stories: The Creative Writing Podcast Season 3: Episode 6 - A Theory of Storytelling   A Theory of Storytelling: Written, literary storytelling is the act of the author translating a story into a text that can be consumed by a reader. I have worked with a LOT of new writers. By a LOT, I mean somewhere around 200, at this point, and by NEW what I mean is this: these are folks who have never attempted to write a story with the purpose of having someone else read it. Some of these new writers have been verbal storytellers their entire lives. Or they've been very successful writing for PR purposes, or academic purposes, or business reasons. Some of them just love reading, and think they have something to add. Others have said, "Someday I'll write a novel" or "someday I'll write down all these crazy events that happened in my life" and they are finally getting to their some day. The would-be writers I've worked with have all been smart, capable, interesting folks. They know how to write a sentence, and even i