Story Telling

Hello Everyone,

The power of a story depends on how you tell the story. Using picture words, emotional tie-ins, assumed (or surveyed) common experience connections, tone of voice, eye contact and more will help convey your message. The idea is to draw the reader, listener or viewer in. How you tell the story depends largely on WHY you're telling the story in the first place.

As I was writing Pacoima Days and letting my fingers do the talking, the events immortalized in The Sandlot, Sandlot 2 and Radio Flyer rushed from my memory stores down through my hands then to the keyboard and onto the screen.

Here are the last two paragraphs from the Introduction of Pacoima Days.

You may be familiar with Mark Twain taking several personalities (or personality traits) from different school mates and then combining them all together to create one particular character. There was a different spin in the creation of two characters in The Sandlot. I was one ordinary kid that did and endured, what were at the time, extraordinary things and circumstances. While Scotty Smalls and Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez are two different characters with traits and abilities of their own it was one kid, me, in our neighborhood with traits, abilities and an awkwardness that led my brother to take me and create two characters with their assigned abilities and traits and launch what has become the all time best baseball movie ever. 

While some of the stories in this book will make you laugh make no mistake about it, our step-father Jim led through physical force, emotional torture, mental strain, intimidation and coercion which led to a lot of hard times and a couple of trips to the hospital. Radio Flyer presented the younger brother as the defenseless abused child – Yes, this is true and I am the real life Bobby, the boy who flew away in the wagon and sent postcards home. Robert Scott Evans is my name and I’m glad to meet you if only through the pages of this book.

When I've scanned all the pictures from way back then I'll post them here; get ready for a good laugh. Stay tuned!

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All the Best,

Scott Evans

THE TURNIP