Pacing Your Story: What Writers Forget - John Bucher
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John Bucher is a mythologist, storyteller, and writer based out of Hollywood, California. He serves as Executive Director for the Joseph Campbell Foundation and is an author, podcaster, and speaker. He has worked with government and cultural leaders around the world as well as organizations such as HBO, DC Comics, The History Channel, A24 Films, Atlas Obscura, and The John Maxwell Leadership Foundation. He has served as a producer, consultant, and writer for numerous film, television, and Virtual Reality projects. He is the author of six books including the best-selling Storytelling for Virtual Reality, named by BookAuthority as one of the best storytelling books of all time. John has worked with New York Times Best Selling authors, CZcams influencers with followings of more than 2 million, Eisner winners, Emmy winners, Academy Award nominees, and cast members from Saturday Night Live. He holds a PhD in Mythology & Depth Psychology and has spoken on 6 continents about using the power of story and myth to reframe how individuals, organizations, cultures, and nations believe and behave.
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I love the concept of inhaling and exhaling as a way to visualize pacing. To my mind, it's fairly revolutionary.
It's a healthy reminder to writers for certain. Pacing can be forgotten at times and its vital so it's something I at least needed to hear. Thanks
Speaking of pacing, we need not drips and drabs of this awesome guy. And I would EQ his mic just a touch as he likes to whisper talk, especially when he’s making a point that is important. But we need to have the whole gosh darn interview! He’s such a well of great info and should have more then one interview! 😊 thanks guys for your hard work and finding talent that is relatable and helpful. He is good at breaking things down and is a story telling master. We need mor!!! 😊
Full interview is now available to Members and can be accessed on our homepage. Will have it out publicly as soon as we can.
"...honors the way the world is, simple stories honor the way that we wish the world was..." What great line that gave me shivers!
Honestly i could listen to John talk about story and film all day ❤
I love this guy. The way he speaks, the calm voice, the content of his carefully chosen words, he's a delight to listen to. And his selfassured nod and smile when he's finished his answers are the icing on the cake.
🕯️ Welcome to another gathering of John Bucher's Meditative Screenwriting Church🕯️
Amen 🙏!
So important!-
Even entertaining frenetic action movies need 'pacing', otherwise the audience gets tired!
All I can say about this is. I go into deep meditation and breathing while visualizing and creating a story.
Woah, deep. Without even realizing it, I've always appreciated films that take the time to breath. I just thought of it as letting the audience process what they're seeing.
I could listen to him all day.
Our full interview is available for Members and will be public soon!
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These are such wonderful insights :)
Exactely what I needed to hear... so subtle, so deep... FC is the shit!!!
Perfect!
Guys guys, please stop teasing us and just drop the full interview, and DO ANOTHER ONE he knows his stuff and has a boat load to teach!! We need to let him please please please!
If you want an example of a show that perfectly figured out the build up and exhale, you can't get any better than M*A*S*H. They knew how to make you hold your breath in a scene, and how to immediately lighten it without ruining the pace.
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Yeah, they- Oh, right. Like at the cash register.
I didn't really like this interview segment. The metaphors for pacing are good, but how do we get feedback to know if we are doing this properly? I'd like to get guidelines for while we write and before handing text to the beta readers.
My favourite interviews so far touched on the 36 elements, and the recent long interview about what it's about and experiences, etc. I tried putting that all into practise, and I managed to get 700+ words of text for preparations and brainstorming...and I have never been able to do that.
There are different types of writers, my friend. Some of us are more visual and kinesthetic in our practice--and we can feel the "breaths" of a story now that we know to "listen" for them. There are plenty of other FC interviews (90+ percent) which do the left brain heavy lifting. Allow those of us who need the John Buchers of the world our time with him.
Thanks for making it so clear for me. ❤❤
I reacted OUT LOUD as I was listening to this! Not sure my cats were able to quite grasp these concepts with me, but I assure you they blew my mind open on this Scorpio full moon 4/23/24😊 Im a storyteller of the novel writing variety but so often find profound, inspiring wisdom here regardless of the film-centric focus... Have been THOROUGHLY enjoying this channel for a long time but not the type who's brave enough to comment on any platform. THIS might be my favorite segment of any interview so far. So relevant to the storytelling craft but equally to life writ large. The"breath" metaphor hit me like a thunderbolt.... Seemed to me so pertinent to the stories the media weaves and how people get lost in it and why/how easy it is to get sucked in and what that says about us... More than anything, it goes to show the importance of encouraging every individual to embrace their Creator power... that balance is crucial so that we stem the extreme Aggressor/Victim dichotomy archetype that dominates our cultural narratives now. I'm personally surrounded by people who are consumed to the point of extremism, esp politically, on both sides, and this was a beautiful expression of how I see these sides from an increasingly frustrated distance.... Thank you, truly thank you, for sharing this 🙏🌞🚀🍿
Amazing to see this video have such an impact! We are grateful that it reached you at the right time. Thank you for posting!
What about the great writers? Edgar poe, emily dickinson, hunter thompson, ernest hemingway, mark twain, j.d salinger, do they have balance?
So true! Balance brings us to alignment! ❤ Thank you so much for these conversations, Film Courage!
When I moused over the thumbnail for this video it looked like it read "PACINO: what writers forget".😆
This is so good. I love your videos and they've been so helpful. thank you.
What a great insight on the pacing and depth of a story. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Can you try to get Joe Brumm the writer of Bluey?
love it
Why does the reporter's " it's fascinating " with out any feelings sound like " that was dog shit , let's change the topic "
I wish i understood what the hell he is talking about
That's the problem with these Joseph Campbell cultists who obsess over Campbell and mythology. Some of the advice is good and the other advice ia just mystical woo woo fluff.
Bro doesn't understand how to breathe 💀
he's using breathing as a metaphor for a reminder to balance out uptime and downtime in your stories
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This is a very woo woo way of describing pacing. I don't know any decent writers who forget this, they just "forget" to describe it in such an obtuse way.
I find it extra annoying when "gurus" act like they're swamis by turning a simple, basic concept into something "mystical". It's not mystical. Just create good arcs of action/rest/emotional moments and space them out well based on your genre. Beat list carefully. I'm not saying that's easy to do, but this wide-eyed pseudo yoga instructor I don't feel would get me there any faster than just remembering the simple concepts in the above paragraph.
This esoteric shit is absolutely unhelpful.