Narrative strategy
Narrative-market fit is that intersection between:
Questions your audience is asking
Questions you can credibly answer
Topics that are valuable for your business.
When you have that figured out, you know which topics to write on and which to decline.
One challenge of our era, if not the defining challenge, is to reach a coherent, actionable understanding of what is happening in our culture. This is always what I have tried to accomplish with my writing, and increasingly this is what I find myself doing in work. Little today is clear. There are still questions to be answered on how to orient to... See more
Tom Critchlow • Narrative Strategy
I believe that narrative is a system of stories.
Narrative Strategy: A Systems Approach to Storytelling
How to share your POV in fresh ways across content
In the process of researching, thinking through, and writing, we end up bringing ideas within the company and influencing its thinking. In some cases this is even done on purpose, not just as a side benefit of writing. Many of us become a kind of “Editor-in-chief of ideas circulating in the organization.”
Tom Critchlow • Narrative Strategy
I’m trying to achieve narrative-market fit, which I see as deeply understanding your market of readers to figure out what questions they have that you can answer, and finding what fits.
In building a media platform, that’s one of the most important things: knowing what questions you are responsible for answering, and which ones you are credible... See more
In building a media platform, that’s one of the most important things: knowing what questions you are responsible for answering, and which ones you are credible... See more