• Ep. 7 - Benjamin Bryant and THE ART OF STORYTELLING

  • Aug 25 2022
  • Length: 43 mins
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Ep. 7 - Benjamin Bryant and THE ART OF STORYTELLING

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    You are a man who wears many hats, and has worn many others during the course of your career. Can you tell us how many jobs you’ve had, approximately, and how the creative process has helped you in each?
    You’ve worked in showbiz and newsbiz for some time now. How did working as a journalist, radio host, broadcaster, etc., help you understand the delicate intricacies that go into telling a story?
    In one of Steven Pressfield’s books on writing, he stated that a good nonfiction story is best told as if it were fiction; following a 3 act process that includes narrative to engage the reader. I’m thinking about books like Enrique’s Journey and Unbroken which tell stories of people who survived atrocious injustices. Having written both non-fiction and fiction, do you find that following traditional fictional methods to write non-fiction books is useful?
    I’d be mad at myself if I didn’t ask this question while we have you on the mic: speechwriting - how does that even work? Do you have to consider the speaker’s personality and mannerisms when writing a speech for them? Or is it boiling a large set of run-of-the-mill cue cards that he/she simply reads?
    Let’s talk about screenplay writing. I know a lot of writers who think they are novelists but, when, (actually I should say IF), they finish their manuscript, it’s clear that their story is better fit for a screenplay. What types of things make screenplay writing different from writing a novel?
    What advice do you have to creatives, especially writers, who are trying to get their foot in the door of any creative outlet (be it filmmaking, novel writing, broadcasting, etc.)?
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