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  Powerful Pacing for Storytellers

  Vanessa Grant

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  In Vanessa Grant's Powerful Pacing for Storytellers, you'll discover how to build tension, emphasize important events, and control your story's pacing while increasing the reader's engagement.  
  You'll explore story pacing with its three different timing clocks and a formula that can help you control the relationship between time, speed, viewpoint depth, and emotional intensity.  
  Then you'll go on to look at the way a reader's perception of time fluctuates with the level of excitement, and we'll study the techniques you can use to control pacing and your reader's level of excitement.  
  And finally, you'll study the effect that different writing modes have on pacing, and how you can control pacing and speed using these modes. 
  Vanessa Grant is the author of 32 published romance novels with over 10 million copies of her books sold. She has been translated into 15 languages and has presented writers' workshops in Canada, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand. 

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  Damon Runyon Theater -...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into a black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  Mr Deeds Goes to Town -...

  Hollywood Stage Productions

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's Mr Deeds Goes to Town starring Gary Cooper & Jean Arthur.

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  Art for Equality - The NAACP's...

  Jenny Woodley

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  A study of the NAACP’s activism in the cultural realm through creative projects from 1910 to the 1960s. 
   
  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909. While the group helped achieve substantial victories in the courtroom, the struggle for civil rights extended beyond gaining political support. It also required changing social attitudes. The NAACP thus worked to alter existing prejudices through the production of art that countered racist depictions of African Americans, focusing its efforts not only on changing the attitudes of the White middle class but also on encouraging racial pride and a sense of identity in the Black community. 
   
  Art for Equality explores an important and little-studied side of the NAACP’s activism in the cultural realm. In openly supporting African American artists, writers, and musicians in their creative endeavors, the organization aimed to change the way the public viewed the Black community. By overcoming stereotypes and the belief of the majority that African Americans were physically, intellectually, and morally inferior to Whites, the NAACP believed it could begin to defeat racism. 
   
  Illuminating important protests, from the fight against the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation to the production of anti-lynching art during the Harlem Renaissance, this insightful volume examines the successes and failures of the NAACP’s cultural campaign from 1910 to the 1960s. Exploring the roles of gender and class in shaping the association's patronage of the arts, Art for Equality offers an in-depth analysis of the social and cultural climate during a time of radical change in America. 
   
  Praise for Art for Equality 
   
  “A well-conceived and well-executed study that will add significantly to the historiography of the NAACP, the long civil rights movement, and African American history.” —John Kirk, George W. Donaghey Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock 
   
  “In this insightful book, Woodley writes with great verve and confidence. As a result, Art for Equality will attract readers in a variety of fields from African American history to art history to American political history.” —Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University 
   
  “A necessary contribution to African American social and cultural histories.” —Journal of Southern History

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  Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge -...

  Eloc Throno, Cole Horton

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  “[A] guide to all the ins and outs of the Black Spire Outpost . . . the next best thing to actually going to Disneyland or Disney World.” —Gizmodo 
   
  Set your course for the edge of the galaxy to the planet Batuu, where you’ll be immersed in the alluring offerings of a mysterious outpost and thriving port that is a haven for scoundrels, rogues, and smugglers. 
   
  Upon arrival, you will have access to an authentic, in-world environment unlike anything you have ever experienced before! This official guide to Batuu is written completely in-world, as if you are a visitor from another part of the galaxy looking for recommendations on where to eat, shop, and sightsee while on your trip to this exciting location. 
   
  Highlighted features:Full-color photos, illustrations, and mapsOriginal content from Lucasfilm and Walt Disney ImagineeringBackstories to characters and locations found in Black Spire Outpost 
   
  Whether living your adventure in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge or simply being an armchair traveler, this in-depth literary companion will delight any fan of Star Wars. 
   
  “Gives Star Wars fans a unique look at what you’ll discover while visiting Batuu . . . there are lots of new details, factoids, and travel warnings to discover in this in-world guidebook.” —StarWars.com 
   
  “Takes a deep dive into the galactic adventures (and pleasures) to be found at Disney World and Disneyland.” —Syfy

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  Paradise

  Laura Maria Censabella

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  Yasmeen is a Yemeni-American high school senior with big dreams. Dr. Guy Royston is her science teacher with a mysterious past. When Yasmeen asks Dr. Royston for an important favor, it sets off a series of events that challenges their core beliefs about science, faith and the nature of love. Includes a conversation with playwright Laura Maria Censabella.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in August 2021.Paradise is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Directed by Anna Lyse EriksonProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergAn L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring:Jeff Marlow as Dr. Guy RoystonMedalion Rahimi as Yasmeen al-Hamadi Senior Producer: Anna Lyse EriksonSound Designer and Mixing Engineer: Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodSenior Radio Producer: Ronn LipkinFoley Artist: Jeff GardnerRecording Engineers: Charles Carroll and Neil WogensonEditor: Neil WogensonThis production of Paradise is based on the West Coast premiere at the Odyssey Theatre, produced by JuVee Productions and American Oasis, and directed by VicangeloBulluck in 2019.Paradise was originally commissioned and developed by The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan FoundationScience & Technology Project.

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