The Usual Suspects, an Essay by Bill Johnson

A Story
is a Promise

A fourth edition of my writing workbook, A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling, is now available on Kindle for $2.99, and from Barnes and Noble for their Nook reader.
This new edition explores what happens when story characters are an extension of authors and suggests techniques for authors to create characters with fully realized inner lives. The book includes a section titled Deep Characterization, and a revision of A Story is a Promise, with an outline of The Lovely Bones and updated reviews of films like Inception.

Introduction to Screenwriting

I'm teaching an introduction to screenwriting course through Portland Community College. The course will cover the format and structure of a screenplay, marketing, contests and outlets of the finished script, including writing a query to an agent, manager, or producer. Students will work on the opening scenes of a screenplay.

CRN: 43696

SW Port / WILSON / 116 07:00 PM-08:50 PM M January 23rd - February 27th

Tuition: $69.00 Fees: $12.00

Registration

Northwest Author Series

February 26th I'm doing a presentation at Christina Katz' Northwest Author Series in Wilsonville. The series takes place the third Sunday of each month during the school year (September – May, not including December) and features traditionally published authors, who are passionate about sharing what they have learned with others. The size of the typical audience is 30-50 writers. Authors, who present for us, sign copies of their most recently published book after the workshop.

Christina's first book, Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids, was sold at the Willamette Writers conference in 2005 and published in 2007. Her second book in 2008, Get Known Before the Book Deal, was the first book to break down the steps of platform development for aspiring authors, a topic that has become extremely popular in the past few years. Her third book is The Writers Workbook.

The Northwest Author Series is sponsored by The Wilsonville Public Library and The Wilsonville Friends of the Library. Top of page