99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style [Paperback]

99 Ways to Tell a Storyis a series of engrossing one-page comics that tell the same story ninety-nine different ways. Inspired by Raymond Queneau’s 1947Exercises in Style, a mainstay of creative writing courses, Madden’s project demonstrates the expansive range of possibilities available to all storytellers. Readers are taken on an enlightening tour—sometimes amusing, always surprising—through the world of the story.

Writers and artists in every media will find Madden’s collection especially useful, even revelatory. Here is a chance to see the full scope of opportunities available to the storyteller, each applied to a single scenario: varying points of view, visual and verbal parodies, formal reimaginings, and radical shuffling of the basic components of the story. Madden’s amazing series of approaches will inspire storytellers to think through and around obstacles that might otherwise prevent them from getting good ideas onto the page. 99 Ways to Tell a Story provides a model that will spark productive conversations among all types of creative people: novelists, screenwriters, graphic designers, and cartoonists.

Template
Monologue
Subjective
Upstairs
A Refrigerator with a View
Voyeur
Sound Effects
Emanata
Inventory
How-To
Welcome to Exercises in Style
Retrograde
Tense
Flashback
Déjà Vu
Unreliable Narrator
Dailies
Political Cartoon
Photocomic
Underground Comix
Manga
War Exercise
Exercises in Love
Fantasy
Plan 99 from Outer Space
High Noon
Police Procedural
Humor Comic
Furry
One Panel
Thirty Panels
Plus One
Etcetera
Opposites
Reframing
Inking Outside the Box
Palindrome
Anagram I
Anagran II
After Rodolphe Töppfer
A Newly Discovered Fragment of the Bayeux Tapestry
What Happens When the Ice Truck Comes to Hogan's Alley
Exorcise in Stlãe