by Giles Broadbent | Jan 4, 2023 | Story
Use these 5 Cs to create a compelling story from sequences or scenes. Plus, there’s a bonus 2 Cs if you want to better understand storytelling. Storytelling is a powerful tool for engaging and captivating an audience. Whether you are writing a novel, screenplay,...
by Giles Broadbent | Nov 28, 2022 | Story
It is a love story between a dashing superstar and a captivating beauty. But while history remembers him as a hero, Emma’s reputation was trashed The story of Horatio Nelson may be filled with blood and honour, heroism and sacrifice but it is essentially an...
by Giles Broadbent | Nov 7, 2022 | Story
Mutiny? Over a Bounty? Perhaps it’s time to return to the origin story of betrayal – and one of history’s biggest hatchet jobs on Captain W Bligh The year is 1801, two decades after the Mutiny On The Bounty. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson engages a tenacious Danish...
by Giles Broadbent | Oct 22, 2022 | Story
‘Faked death’ stories offer everything – drama, nail-biting tension, psychological meltdown, escape. No wonder they are such a staple in fiction. In John Grisham’s 1997 thriller The Partner, lawyer Patrick Lanigan becomes reviled above all other lawyers (a...
by Giles Broadbent | Sep 20, 2019 | Story
Rutland was the last hold-out against fast food giant McDonald’s. But now the American giant wants to slap some Golden Arches on the rural county. The story There is a corner of a field that is forever England. Enter Rutland. Even the name suggests a farming...
by Giles Broadbent | Sep 4, 2019 | Story
In prison, the small comforts come at a big price. But how do inmates pay for their luxuries when money is in short supply and tobacco is illegal? The story Trade, like nature, finds a way. In the sealed-off setting of a prison, where cash money is scarce and people’s...
