Why Plot Never Matters: Telling the Screen Stories in Your Heartis designed to fill a significant and widely ignored gap between the theory and the practice of screenwriting. The approach of this text is equally applicable to all modes of writing popular fiction, including movies, television, novels,and stage plays. Why Plot Never Matters: Telling the Screen Stories in Your Heart helps new writers: discover their personal artistic voice. learn the overlooked creative methods allprofessional screenwriters actually use to build their stories. This textbook will take the reader on a journey of self-discovery, one that reveals the core beliefs and life lessons that constitute the unique creative voice of every writer.

The infamous Seriti Commission into the arms deal. The Glenister case following the disbanding of the Scorpions. Busting open the bread manufacturers’ cartel.

High drama; high stakes brought to South Africa courtesy of the Accountability Now NGO, and its founder Paul Hoffman.

Join him in his journey from jaded silk to corruption buster – a fly-on-the-wall account of courtroom battles, influential personalities, secrets and lies in the battle to speak truth to power.

What makes a woman kill? And how does it feel to share a cell with a murderer?

Carla van der Spuy visits four correctional facilities for females across South Africa and gets inside the heads of women who committed violent crimes. She visits the babies born behind bars, celebrates Christmas with the inmates and chats face to face with women who killed with knives, guns and the help of hit men, as well as a cleptomaniac and a prostitute. Women with blood on their hands.

What went so terribly wrong in their lives? And is there a person behind the criminal?

Unlike the metamorphosis that occurs to a butterfly or a frog, telling a story will probably not dramatically alter your character, physical structure, or even circumstances. However, as a storyteller, you can imagine it did. Anchored by the need to write about storytelling in a human way, So, What's Your Story? Discovering the Story in You weaves theory and practice while infusing exercises and examples to help demonstrate and support vital storytelling principles. The second edition of So, What's Your Story? is a multimedia masterpiece that includes access to online supplements at no additional charge. The online supplements include terrific audio and video story samples from former students, discussion friendly remarks from the author, and stories told by exceptional tellers who performed on Houston's KPFT So, What's Your Story?. So, What's Your Story? Discovering the Story in You: Features a flexible format instructors can teach confidently any chapter in any order creating their own segues and incorporating their own pedagogical style. Features new story samples in each chapter; all of which can be found on the online supplement, along with a brief remark about the learning principle with which each is associated. Integrates a set of new exercises within the text to encourage frequent and meaningful practice. Peppers story excerpts throughout the text from former students to boost the reader's comprehension and improve their overall storytelling performance.