You Are a Storyteller

In this week’s episode of You Are a Storyteller, we take a break in our regularly scheduled programming to answer questions from our audience! We collected all manner of storytelling questions from our faithful followers on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. (Special thanks to all who participated!)

In part one of this two-part series, Belief Agency’s Ian Ebright joins Brian McDonald to respond to your questions about writing. Together they cover how to work through your fear as a writer, how to do more showing than telling, and how to stay true to your armature.

Stay tuned. In the coming weeks, Ian and Brian will answer your questions on directing!

Before you can learn to do, you have to learn to see. Mastering anything, even something as natural as storytelling, requires time and energy—and lots of repetition. If you want to create great stories, you have to become a student of the best stories, and make this education a deliberate practice.

In this episode of You Are a Storyteller, Jesse and Brian discuss clone characters—what they are, what they do for your story, and why they're important.

In this episode of "You Are a Storyteller," Belief Agency founder and creative director, Jesse Bryan, and chief storyteller, Brian McDonald, cover the most essential component of any story: the armature. The armature is what holds everything up; it's the scaffolding so to speak. Not all stories have an armature, but all the best ones do—and we'll teach you how to spot one.