On September 10th from 11am-12pm, special guest Stan Williams will join the Authors Guild and our Path of Consciousness community to speak about how to capture and engage your reader.
In this 45-minute illustrated presentation, followed by an open-ended Q&A, Hollywood screenplay consultant, filmmaker, and novelist, Dr. Stan Williams, will share the 12 critical elements of character development and how they must integrate with your story’s structure and plot to emotionally and intellectually capture and engage your reader. Key to these elements is their integration with your story's moral premise, which will help you seamlessly integrate every aspect of your story.
Topics will include: Five critical story elements that make a character relatable. Six steps of a character’s transformation; How characters transform and emotionally engage your reader; How using the Scene-Sequel technique will give your characters depth; Five rhetorical tropes will add mystery and intrigue to your character’s situation; and with a nod to the current fad, Stan will discuss how AI can help you identify and describe your characters. Stan's short talk will serve as an introduction to his popular 8-hour webisode workshop, Storycraft Training, available for FREE on YouTube.
Learn more about Stan here:
Stan Williams is a sought-after screenplay and story consultant by Hollywood producers and writers. He’s the author of three historical novels, a memoir, the editor and designer of three non-fiction books on history, and his popular film industry story-structure book: The Moral Premise: Harnessing Virtue and Vice for Box Office Success. After the release of The Moral Premise, Stan worked personally with Will Smith on a dozen of his film scripts. Stan’s live workshops on story structure have been delivered dozens of times across the country at various film conferences that were eventually converted into an 8-hour, 25-part webisode series available online. His Moral Premise blog, with nearly 400 articles, averages 900 views a day. As a documentary filmmaker, Stan has produced over 400 projects spanning 50 years. After college, Stan spent 4 years training astronauts in Houston for NASA’s first space station, Skylab. He’s currently working on his fourth novel, a thriller set in Southeast Asia that explores human trafficking. Stan has been married to his first wife for 57 years. They have three children and ten grandchildren, and live in SE Michigan. Stan has a B.A. in Physics, an M.A. in Mass Communications, and a Ph.D. in Narrative Theory.
