storytelling
The story is the way the story is told.
from The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin
Keely Adler added 18d ago
- Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question: “What makes a good story?” They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard: “If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats… you got something pretty boring. What should happen between every beat you’ve written... See more
alex added 22d ago
Tell the internet a story
alex added 1mo ago
I make my own stories and I'm very obsessed with not being nostalgic, because I think that 90 percent of the world is too nostalgic. They don't have the courage to face the present and make stories that are relevant today, about life today...
– Guillermo del Toro
gabriel added 2mo ago
Sendak understood that stories can be scary. He believed that we should all—kids and adults alike—experience stories that deliver encounters with all the emotions available to us; that scary stories are how we become prepared for any eventuality. Indeed, this is the very reason we need stories. We don’t do well with uncertainty, and so we seek out
... See morefrom Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg
Keely Adler added 2mo ago
Stories are a calm anchor amid the storm of uncertainty. And in uncertain in-between times, the stories we tell ourselves are powerful frameworks that help us work out who we are in the present moment and what we value. They lure us into becoming our aspirational selves.
from Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg
Keely Adler added 2mo ago
alex added 2mo ago
storytelling: a moodboard
originally made to collect inspo for Moodboard (Alex's version) https://sublimeinternet.substack.com/p/moodboard-alexs-version Now a home for Sublimers to add their storytelling related inspo67 cards · by Alex Dobrenko
Alex Dobrenko added 3mo ago
- every human being is a storyteller, that stories are how we seek to understand the meaning of our lives
from Steve Almond Tells Us
Natalie Audelo added 3mo ago
Work backwards from the emotion you're trying to create in the reader. Then let the structure follow.
phoebe added 3mo ago