This week, Alida and Kathryn welcome Adrienne Young and Isabel Ibañez to the Story Works Round Table to chat about their new book, The Storyteller’s Workbook. This is a novelist’s dream tool and you’re going to want to get your hands on a copy – just ask Kathryn! We get into everything, from the beautiful design and feel of the paper (it really does matter) to the myriad tools to sections on revision and publication that Adrienne and Isabel packed inside one book cover…all for you.
If you love storytelling, pull up a chair at the Round Table!
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Adrienne Young is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Fable duology and the Sky in the Deep duology. She is a foodie with a deep love of history and travel and a shameless addiction to coffee. When she’s not writing, you can find her on her yoga mat, sipping wine over long dinners, or disappearing into her favorite art museums. She lives with her documentary filmmaker husband and their four little wildlings in
the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
Isabel Ibañez is an award-winning designer and the author of Woven in Moonlight, a finalist for the William C. Morris Award and Time’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time, Written in Starlight, and Together We Burn. Her designs have been sold in nationwide brands such as Anthropologie, Crate & Barrel, and Paper Source in the form of greeting cards, notepads, and journals.
SHOW NOTES
What we talked about:
What is the origin of the Storytellers Workbook? (1:40)
The particularities of the design. (3:50)
What is Kathryn’s experience with the workbook? (8:28)
How did they approach the flexibility of the writing process? (13:00)
Why a hybrid instruction book and journal? (13:45)
Why did they include revision and publication? (16:17)
What about the visual tools included? (20:00)
How did having two different writing personalities help with the collaboration? (24:11)
Why the planner and tracker section? (29:35)
Is there a particular section that they HAD to include? (33:35)
The stickers!! (39:16)
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About Your Hosts
Kathryn Arnold writes fantasy and anything else that sparks her creativity from her home in Kingston, Washington. She currently earns her living as an insurance underwriting assistant, where she also creates marketing and web copy. When not writing, she plays (and teaches) piano and keyboard in a band (or two), and is working on starting a ministry team with her husband. You can find Kathryn at www.skyfirewords.com.
Robert Scanlon was born in Australia, but whisked off to England when only a baby. After many years complaining about the weather, he did the sensible thing and moved back to Australia. Despite a career in the music industry, followed by decades teaching public speaking, Robert is an introvert who adores reading. Robert grew up on a diet of sci-fi masters, eventually discovering he had read the library’s entire science fiction section. Now he has to write his own. Robert is the author of Constellation, book one of the Blood Empire space opera series. Find out more at www.RobertScanlon.com
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