narrative
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Three Thousand Years of Longing Tells Stories About Stories
Three Thousand Year of Longing, George Miller’s newest film starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, attempts to do the impossible. Skipping across three millennia, Miller’s romantic fantasy is a chamber play, a homage to the fable of Scheherazade, and a meditation on curiosity and storytelling. It’s a romance about truth and power, and what stories…
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Let This Periodic Table Of Storytelling Destroy Your Writer’s Block
Writing is many things: a job, a hobby, a personal imperative, an act, an art, a gigantic pain in the arse. But is it a science? The Periodic Table of Storytelling breaks down narrative elements into a familiar form — though one that liberal artsy folks probably haven’t thought about since high school.