Ann Feehan's Blog (2)

I love Robert McKee's book on screenwriting called "Story". There are so many ideas about how to be a good writer (how to handle exposition, creating strong antagonists, reinventing genre, etc.). If you understand a theory, you can design a game/exercise to practice it. So many of his ideas easily lent themselves to design exercises that can make you both a better storyteller as well as being a better improviser. DETAIL vs CLICHE pg. 4 “An archetypal story creates settings and characters so ra… Continue

the President emailed (wow!) and suggested that we each try to take our "smallest steps" for AIN (and our networking/interaction within the AIN). My smallest steps 1) try out this blogging thing-a-majing 2) write down twitter address for AIN (somewhere I won't lose it) 3) post re Laughing Stock class this Saturday in San Francisco, with William Hall, the future ones with Chris Sams, Lisa Klein and Rich Cox, 4) catch up on the blog posts, forum discussions, new members 5) start transcribing game… Continue