A hero is a person who says yes to adventure. - Kendra Levin The post S25E4 – A Guide to Designing the Main Character appeared first on Writing Roots.

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S25E4 – A Guide to Designing the Main Character

In many ways, a book is, in itself, a tiny universe. Each page is like a newly formed galaxy, fashioned from a single, pulsing thought. A book travels for days, for years, sometimes for centuries to meet you at an exact point in time. - Lang Leav The post S25E3 – A Guide to Worldbuilding appeared first on Writing Roots.

S25E3 – A Guide to Worldbuilding

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before. - Joseph Campbell The post S25E2 – A Guide to Plotting a Hero’s Journey appeared first on Writing Roots.

S25E2 – A Guide to Plotting a Hero’s Journey

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight. - Jane Austen The post S25E1 – A Guide to Stirring the Imagination appeared first on Writing Roots.

S25E1 – A Guide to Stirring the Imagination

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling The post S24E9 – Futuristic and Dystopian Stories appeared first on Writing Roots.

S24E9 – Futuristic and Dystopian Stories

The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come. - Steve Jobs The post S24E8 – The History of Superheroes appeared first on Writing Roots.

S24E8 – The History of Superheroes

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle. Audiences are harder to please if you’re just giving them special effects… but they’re easy to please if it’s a good story. - Steven Spielberg The post S24 Bonus – How Film Impacted Storytelling appeared first on Writing Roots.

S24 Bonus – How Film Impacted Storytelling

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. - Stephen King The post S24E7 – The Creation of Monster Fiction appeared first on Writing Roots.

S24E7 – The Creation of Monster Fiction

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. - C.S. Lewis The post S24E6 – Fairy Tales and Bedtime Stories appeared first on Writing Roots.

S24E6 – Fairy Tales and Bedtime Stories

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players - William Shakespeare The post S23E5 – Shakespeare and the Printing Press appeared first on Writing Roots.

S23E5 – Shakespeare and the Printing Press

That’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again. - Walt Disney The post S24E4 – Educational Storytelling and the Use of Theater appeared first on Writing Roots.

S24E4 – Educational Storytelling and the Use of Theater

At the heart of every story is conflict. Whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed. - Jennifer McMahon The post S24E3 – Introduction of Man vs. Man and Character Arcs appeared first on Writing Roots.

S24E3 – Introduction of Man vs. Man and Character Arcs

Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say - when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be. - The Odyssey The post S24E2 – Stories of Gods and Fate appeared first on Writing Roots.

S24E2 – Stories of Gods and Fate

Story, as it turns out, was crucial to our evolution - more so than opposable thumbs. Opposable thumbs let us hang on; story told us what to hang on to. - Lisa Cron The post S24E1 – Storytelling in Prehistoric Times appeared first on Writing Roots.

S24E1 – Storytelling in Prehistoric Times

I wish it need not have happened in my time. So do I and so do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkein The post S23E9 – Choose Your Adventure appeared first on Writing Roots.

S23E9 – Choose Your Adventure

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