99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style

99 Ways to Tell a Story is a series of engrossing one-page comics that tell the same story ninety-nine different ways. Inspired by Raymond Queneau€s 1947 Exercises 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.