I had to begin not with a fully outlined plot, but with a fully-fleshed person.
Tag: storytelling
Building and Fixing Your Causal Chain
Have you received feedback saying that your characters feel manipulated by the author? If so, you might have a broken causal chain.
Does your Story have a Causal Chain?
Create a sense of the inevitable.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
The following is an excerpt from the presentation I made earlier this week for my seminar on (Post)Colonial Geographies with Professor Sandeep Banerjee at McGill University. The young protagonist of Salman Rushdie's children's fantasy novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories asks his father Rashid Khalifa, a great storyteller better known as the Shah of …
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