{"id":3553,"date":"2017-12-13T09:14:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T09:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2017-12-13T09:17:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T09:17:03","slug":"video-thomas-french-on-the-engine-of-all-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/video-thomas-french-on-the-engine-of-all-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Thomas French on the Engine of All Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I love fiction,&#8221; Thomas French said during his remarkable keynote at #Story17. &#8220;If there\u2019s fiction writers in the room, I salute you. But there\u2019s no need for those of us who write nonfiction to invent anything. Life defies categorization, it obliterates ideology; day after day, life exceeds invention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas went on to demonstrating how we can push stories forward, make them exciting and have the reader keep asking: what happens next?<\/p>\n<p>Watch his full speech below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RnREzIoIzyc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A full transcript of the keynote is <a href=\"http:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/stories\/tom-french\/\">available here<\/a>, thanks to Nieman Storyboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I love fiction,&#8221; Thomas French said during his remarkable keynote at #Story17. &#8220;If there\u2019s fiction writers in the room, I salute you. But there\u2019s no need for those of us who write nonfiction to invent anything. Life defies categorization, it obliterates ideology; day after day, life exceeds invention.\u201d Thomas went on to demonstrating how we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/video-thomas-french-on-the-engine-of-all-stories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Thomas French on the Engine of All Stories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[126,128,142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}