The Beemgee podcast on the craft of developing stories focuses on the emotional response of the audience to the story. Instead of the Hero’s Journey, we concentrate on “The Audience’ Journey” – how authors guide their audience through a story world by manipulating emotions. This is the essential guide to story development for all authors of fiction or memoirs, for screenwriters, game designers, dramatists and dramaturgs, editors and publishers, producers and directors.
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episode 18: Episode 18 – Storytelling Essentials
In this episode, we look back on the season to summarise what we've learnt so far:
Unwritten "laws" of dramaturgy?
Something to do with emotionally engaging an audience?
WHO is the story about?
WHAT are stories really about?
Characters, change, learning – what else?
A list of ingredients.
Symmetry.
Cause and effect.
The twin layers of plot and transformation.
5 things stories should do in order to engage audiences emotionally.