The Storyteller's Art: How to Enhance Your Fiction & Non-Fiction Writing with Narrative Techniques
with
Kevan Manwaring
Lost Islands: inventing Avalon, destroying Eden
How can we use the storyteller's art to improve our writing?
Professional storyteller Kevan Manwaring has found that his own writing has benefitted enormously from his ten years' experience in grabbing an audience's attention, holding it, taking them on a rewarding journey and making it an enjoyable experience along the way.
His latest book, Lost Islands: inventing Avalon, destroying Eden, although non-fiction, uses a framing narrative story (the Irish legend of Oisin and Niamh) to act as a through-line and to provide contrast to the 'heavier' material and rhetoric of each chapter.
This device provides the essential ingredient of all good writing: narrative traction.
Although such a framing narrative is not always appropriate, variations on this can be effective to 'pull' your reader through your text.
In this inspiring and informative interview, you will learn all about the 'tricks of the trade' which you can incorporate into your fiction and non-fiction writing such as:
- narrative hooks ...
- set ups and pay offs ...
- variation of tone and pace ...
- meaningful structure and thematic unity ...
By the end of our journey along the storyteller's way, you will also have an understanding of the key stages:
1. Once Upon a Time - a general introduction to the storytelling tradition ...
2. Crossing the Threshold - creating a sense of risk ...
3. Encounters in the Cave - don't be afraid of the dark ...
4. Earning the Treasure - when all that hard work pays off ...
5. Bringing it Home - grounding it, summarising, assessing ...
Kevan Manwaring, MA Teaching and Practice of Creative Writing, is an author of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. His published works include The Long Woman (novel), The Bardic Handbook and Lost Islands (nonfiction) and his poetry has been published in several anthologies.
He teaches creative writing for the Open University and the University of Bath. He performs as a professional storyteller around Britain and abroad - and runs workshops in performance skills. He lives in Bath, Somerset.
www.tallyessin.com
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