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- noun The act and skills of
presenting stories andtales .
Etymologies
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Examples
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My usual approach to storytelling is to focus on several different characters or groups of characters that gradually come together in the course of the story.
An interview with Terry Brooks about his new series that begins with Armageddon's Children 2010
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Transmedia storytelling is the future of marketing.
The Rise Of The Corporate Transmedia Storyteller Steve Rubel 2010
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But the storytelling is there, and this edit does a good job of selling Tron as a character-based action film in an unusual world.
VOTD: The Original Tron Gets Modernized Fan-Created Trailer | /Film 2010
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(He also claims this storytelling is the key to his successful writing.)
Artist Respect Boundaries ____Maggie 2007
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(He also claims this storytelling is the key to his successful writing.)
Archive 2007-06-01 ____Maggie 2007
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Stand-alones demand a different kind of storytelling from a series novel, perhaps more complete than what is required for the episodic nature of a series.
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I would like to point out that "storytelling" is more effective if it reflects a majority than the minority.
Granholm: Dems need to sell banking and health care reform 2010
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Certainly, this "storytelling" is embedded in the investigation that drives the plot: Finlay sifts through the "facts" to find the "truth."
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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The best kind of storytelling is when writers turn a mirror on ourselves, and that mirror shows us a lot of conflict.
Archive 2006-07-01 Lou Anders 2006
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But the storytelling is clear, and the characters, in their body and faces, are expressive — both of these things being hard to achieve (and more and more rare I find).
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Prospective Colorist #1: Emily 2009
Prolagus commented on the word storytelling
Have you considered the way
People might react to all the things that your characters say?
And are their actions hand in hand with what you want to portray?
Are you sick?
Are you crippled? Insane?
Expressing the desires that daren't speak their name?
Are you the one to be blamed?
(Storytelling, by Belle And Sebastian)
July 19, 2008