The secret of telling a good story, regardless of your chosen media, is good storytelling. It’s essential to the success of all media, from film and graphic novels to novels, short stories, video games, and any point in between. How do you take the techniques of master storytellers and fold them into your own work, regardless of medium?
Bryan Young has worked in just about every media as a professional storyteller, film (documentary and narrative), prose (novels and short stories), non-fiction, journalism, comics and graphic novels, and more. As a teacher, he’s taught at the University of Utah, Writer’s Digest, Script Magazine, and at conferences around the world. He’s written thousands of articles analyzing the techniques of master storytellers and has identified some of his favorite techniques across a variety of media that can work regardless of what media you’re working in.
Storytelling is more than just putting words on a page or regurgitating plot points, it’s engrossing an audience fully into a story, making them care about characters and situations and keeping them on the edge of their seat, weather it’s an easy chair at home, in the theater, or if their hands are full of a book or a game controller.
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Bryan Young
Instead of going to film school, Bryan Young built a spaceship in his backyard and shot a movie inside it. He took it to film festivals and embarked on a life of storytelling. Today, he works as a storyteller in many different media. He's published thousands of essays and hundreds of short stories in publications like, Star Wars Insider, Huffington Post, SYFY, /Film, Script Magazine, Marvel and Image Comics, Weird Tales, the Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Library Literary Magazine and many more. He’s worked in the Star Wars, Robotech, Doctor Who, Shadowrun and BattleTech universes, among others. He teaches writing at the University of Utah and Writers Digest’s Online University. He served two years as President of the League of Utah Writers, was named the League’s Writer of the Year in 2023, has won two Diamond Quill Awards, and the Utah Humanities Foundation awarded his novel BattleTech: A Question of Survival the 2025 Utah Book Award in the Speculative Fiction category. His latest novel is BattleTech: Ghosts of Timkovichi. He wrote the critically acclaimed non-fiction book A Children’s Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination. His latest non-fiction tie-in work was the bestselling Big Bang Theory Official Book of Lists. He’s currently co-writing the upcoming BattleTech series of graphic novels alongside New York Times bestseller Michael A. Stackpole. He still works in film as well, his latest screenwriting and directing effort, The Lost Boys, is a short film currently on the festival circuit. It’s appeared in more than 30 festivals around the world and won almost 20 awards. You can follow Bryan on social media @swankmotron or visit www.swankmotron.com.
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