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originally made to collect inspo for Moodboard (Alex's version) https://sublimeinternet.substack.com/p/moodboard-alexs-version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 inspo
storytelling: a moodboard
“A reader’s favorite subject is the reader.”
Derek Thompson • Hit Makers
Reading is a passionate act. If you read a story not just with your head, but also with your body and feelings and soul, the way you dance or listen to music, then it becomes your story. And it can mean infinitely more than any message. It can offer beauty. It can take you through pain. It can signify freedom. And it can mean something different ev... See more
Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Message about Messages
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possib
Maria Popova • Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling
Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • "The Danger of a Single Story"
