Story Nerd
by Melanie Hill, Valerie Francis
April 11, 2024 3:00 am
For novelists, memoirists and screenwriters who want to know how stories work so they can finish their manuscripts faster, and without frustration. Each week literary editors Valerie Francis and Melanie Hill explain the craft of storytelling using films as examples. The goal is simple: to learn from writers who have come before us…what worked well and what didn’t work so well. If you want to spend more time writing your book/screenplay and less time studying story theory, this podcast is for you. “The only thing that matters, and that ever will matter, is the story. That’s it.” – Tom Hanks (Oxford Union 2024)
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