"Book Me" / Services
Thanks...
...for making it this far. I know there's a lot to go through on the site, but I assume you've at least partially read or skimmed the other pages, otherwise you probably wouldn't have clicked this one.
To the right you can find my CV and academic diploma, as well as a contact form, should you wish to use that.
My practical experience with both visual and textual medias plus academic training gives me a fairly wholesome understanding of how stories work as well as some perspective on how you can take things further.
The aim is to give you a rough impression of my background and approach to storytelling, so you'll have a foundation to decide wether you'd be interested in reading some of my works, or maybe want to borrow my eyes for a project of your own.
With that said I can offer the following services:
Developmental Editing
- Refine concepts, themes and story ideas for novels and scripts.
Language Editing
- precision and texture of language / information-layering.
- see pdf examples for editing style (*will be added later due to copyright)
Speaks/Lectures on Storytelling & Narratology
- practical courses or speaks about communication, structuring information etc.
- see 'Videos' for examples
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Recommended Readings
If you want to delve into the world narratology and semiotics yourself, then I can recommend giving the following works a closer look. There are of course many other great resources out there, but these have all impressed me with their insights related to creative writing.
*Should you know of some great resource I ought to read, then please send me a note - I'm curious by nature and always eager to learn and improve.
Narratology
The Science of Storytelling, Will Storr
- Practical, experience based insights into creative writing like.
Steering the Craft, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Exercises and insights into creative writing.
The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell
- Musings on how myths and legends influence us human beings.
The Storytelling Animal, Jonathan Gottschall
- On how stories influence and shapes us as humans.
Fantasy - How it Works, Brian Attebery
- On mythical and metaphorical language and our ability to read it.
Save the Cat, Blake Snyder
- A scriptwriting "bible" with loads of useful tools and approaches.
Poetics, Aristotle
- The earliest preserved narratological work we know of.
Semiotics
Mythologies, Roland Barthes
- On how socio-cultural context changes the meaning of symbols.
Reading Images - The Grammar of Visual Design , Kress & van Leeuwen
- A grammatical approach to visual medias, applicable for writing as well.
Social Semiotik, Morten Boeriis (Danish PhD Paper)
- Thorough description of the three metafunctions of social-semiotics:
textual, ideational and interpersonal.
