The Creative E’s: A Credo Framework for Redemptive Storytellers – Kobo eBook

In the tradition of writers who used the page to speak against injustice, writer O. Seantelle White treats the process of writing as a theopathic (healing) experience for the writer and the audience. Built on a framework of Creative Empathy, Creative Edification, and Creative Exhortation, this media literacy workshop teaches storytelling as an ethical act with redemptive potential. Exploitive media dehumanizes, and propaganda trains an audience to act out. Redemptive narrative is a call-to-agency that empowers an audience to heal. Inside: the full Credo framework, film analysis drawn from political cinema, a propaganda and photojournalism study, exercises that move a writer from first idea to finished draft, and two complete screenplays, including Christian Soldiers, a story of a community fleeing immigration enforcement to a refuge called Selah. Foreword by Chris Easterly; Screenwriter (The Shunning, Unnatural History, Past Life, Carl Lutz: Dangerous Diplomacy, and Between Us (Kairos Prize winner). Author of Writing, Making, and Distributing Your Short Film (Broadcast Education Association Textbook Award winner), Falling Forward: A Man’s Memoir of Divorce, And the Darkness Did Not Overcome: A Christian’s Memoir of Depression, and The Catholic Runner.