Episode 6: Go Forth Boldly in Storytelling, Gaming & Screenwriting

Welcome to another Storybeast LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests that are an expert within their area of storytelling. Faisal G. Binzagr is a creative writer, consultant, and music journalist based in Saudi Arabia. He enjoys storytelling in many forms, whether it's long-form fiction, theatre, poetry, or narrative design for video games. Since completing his Certificate in Filmmaking from The National Film & Television School in the UK, he has been actively involved in a number of projects across a variety of mediums, including recently delivering his first ‘Storytelling for Video Games’ course. He cherishes any opportunity to tell a great story and offer his unique experiences. He has a particular fondness for narratives that empower others, although his current work in progress is a bleak murder mystery/noir novel set in the Arabian Gulf.

In this episode you'll hear about:

• Boldness in storytelling

• Faisal's perspective on the crossover of game writing with other modalities of narrative craft

• The necessity of honesty and boldness (and what that means) for Faisal, Ghabiba, and Courtney

• Parasites, unicorns and scarab beatles

• Where to find all of the interesting answers our Legendaries give on Storybeast

Special mentions include technology ecosystem builder, AstroLabs, theatre and film producers, IStage, music journal, Everything is Noise, actor, director, singer, and writer, Zaberi, game designer, Mohammed Hashem, and musician, Imran Binzagr.

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Special thanks to Deore for our musical number. You can find her on Instagram @deore.music or find more of her creative work on Spotify. As ever, thank you dear listeners. Please consider leaving a review to support this podcast.