6/20/2023 0 Comments Georgiana by Amanda ForemanAt the end of her research, Amanda Foreman realized that, even for a story as immense and complex as the Civil War, she had too much information for both writer and reader to process. Her father was Carl Foreman, on Oscar-winning screenwriter who wrote the classic The Bridge on the River Kwai. Unfortunately, most presenters then proceed to deliver that mass to their audiences as is, inflicting the dreaded effect known as MEGO, “My Eyes Glaze Over.”Īlthough Foreman is a respected scholar with a doctorate in history from Oxford University, she has storytelling in her DNA. While few presenters spend 11 years developing their stories about their businesses, they, like Foreman, have a vast mass of unwieldy material that they have to communicate to various audiences. The fruit of my 11 years of research meant that I had more than 400 characters scattered over four regions … This vast mass of material was so unwieldy that I could hardly work my way through the first day of the conflict, let alone all four years. In an article for the Wall Street Journal‘s “Word Craft” column about her creative process, Foreman provided a valuable lesson for presenters: Historian Amanda Foreman, author of the bestselling Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, has written a new book, A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War.
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