{"id":2154,"date":"2017-10-08T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/10\/08\/what-dan-harmons-improvised-cartoon-can-teach-you-about-instinctual-storytelling\/"},"modified":"2017-10-08T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T00:15:00","slug":"what-dan-harmons-improvised-cartoon-can-teach-you-about-instinctual-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/10\/08\/what-dan-harmons-improvised-cartoon-can-teach-you-about-instinctual-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"What Dan Harmon&#8217;s Improvised Cartoon Can Teach You about Instinctual Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/10\/what-dan-harmons-improvised-dd-knock-cartoon-can-teach-you-about-instinctual-storytelling\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/dan_harmon.png?itok=nc_lWXuY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#8220;You are a storyteller. You were born that way.&#8221; \u2014Dan Harmon&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nDoes storytelling come naturally to you? That&#8217;s kind of a tricky question, right? On one hand, we can pretty capably tell a co-worker about our crazy weekend, but on the other hand, we can spend hours staring at a blank page, completely stuck on how to write our next scene. Really, while storytelling might be an inherent skill we&#8217;re all born with, the ability to put that skill to work on paper may not be.&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nHowever, one writer that seems to really have this screenwriting thing down is Dan Harmon. His work on <em>Community, Rick and Morty, <\/em> and countless other TV series has shown us that consistent quality is attainable, but one show, in particular, reveals a unique <em>spirit <\/em>of storytelling that relies less on talent and labor and more on creative instinct, the improvised D&amp;D knock-off <em>HarmonQuest<\/em>. In this video essay, Sage Hyden of Just Write discusses what screenwriters can learn about storytelling from improv, practice, and going with your gut.&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/10\/what-dan-harmons-improvised-dd-knock-cartoon-can-teach-you-about-instinctual-storytelling\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: NoFilmSchool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; &#8220;You are a storyteller. You were born that way.&#8221; \u2014Dan Harmon&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; Does storytelling come naturally to you?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camera"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-yK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}