story-world
We’re told about the world before we see it, we imagine things before we experience them, and we become hostages to these preconceptions. These narratives give us an ordered picture of the world, to which our tastes and stereotypes and values are anchored.
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
Narrative is a central function of language. Not, in origin, an artifact of culture, an art, but a fundamental operation of the normal mind functioning in society. To learn to speak is to learn to tell a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
And it’s so true it’s trite that human beings are narrative animals: every culture countenances itself as culture via a story, whether mythopoeic or politico-economic; every whole person understands his lifetime as an organized, recountable series of events and changes with at least a beginning and middle. We need narrative like we need space-time;
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Both Flesh and Not: Essays
A broader, more neutral de fi nition would equate ideology with any self-reinforcing web of interconnected beliefs
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Be Very Careful About The Way You Craft Your Narrative
“Notice,” Michael Lewis suggests, “the effect the stories people tell about themselves have on their lives. If you listen to people, if you just sit around and listen, you’ll find there are patterns in the way they talk about themselves.” Some people are always the victim in the stories they te... See more
“Notice,” Michael Lewis suggests, “the effect the stories people tell about themselves have on their lives. If you listen to people, if you just sit around and listen, you’ll find there are patterns in the way they talk about themselves.” Some people are always the victim in the stories they te... See more
SIX at 6: A Reign of Error, Good And Bad Air, Second Opinions, Running Out Of Luck, Phoebe Buffay, and The Effect Of Your Narrative
Aristotle said the exposition phase of a story was where you define your characters. The trick to writing a good expository segment is to tell readers what they must understand and no more.… Good exposition provides just enough backstory to explain how the protagonist happens to be in a particular place at a particular time with the wants that will
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Narrative arc sequences events so that the reader will keep moving forward. A true narrative arc sweeps forward across time pushing ahead with constant motion. It looks like a wave about to break, a pregnant package of stored energy. Storycraft.
We could understand a story as simply a series of such expectation/resolution moments.