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originally made to collect inspo for Moodboard (Alex's version) https://sublimeinternet.substack.com/p/moodboard-alexs-version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
when one story dominates, it risks exterminating others or doesn’t do justice to the reality it presumes to narrate. Storytelling, like ecosystems, needs diversity to thrive. And since stories have a direct impact on reality — to the point that we often mistake one for the other — we need to tell stories that enliven, provide solace, and inspire co... See more
Niels Devisscher • Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown
Readers — kids and adults — ask me about the message of one story or another. I want to say to them, “Your question isn’t in the right language.”
As a fiction writer, I don’t speak message. I speak story. Sure, my story means something, but if you want to know what it means, you have to ask the question in terms appropriate to storytelling. Terms su... See more
As a fiction writer, I don’t speak message. I speak story. Sure, my story means something, but if you want to know what it means, you have to ask the question in terms appropriate to storytelling. Terms su... See more
Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Message about Messages
We are always telling stories, whether we realize it or not. We might as well get good at it. Good stories win people over. They provoke and inspire and inflame the human spirit. It’s a tremendous source of power.
visakan veerasamy • a matryoshka of possibilities
The higher into tension we have gone, the more dependent we are on the storyteller for a way out. That’s why he can plug in whatever value, idea, or moral he chooses.
Or product.
Rushkoff, Douglas • Present Shock
"What a story is “about” is to be found in the curiosity it creates in us, which is a form of caring." - George Saunders
Listen! This is how stories used to begin. It is the opening word of Beowulf , the oldest piece of English literature. We don’t know who wrote it, but it almost certainly began as an oral tradition, and it reveals something about storytelling that has never left us. It begins with a call, with a bard asking a crowd to give freely a resource that h
... See moreAlexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
Mud and Antler Bone — Martin Shaw
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I’ve long wrote off McDonald’s as a fast food option, but someone confessed fan-hood recently, and on Easter Sunday there was nowhere else near the laundromat that had food and a bathroom. Everyone’s due a second-chance. Never again. It was like $20 for some bad breakfast sandwiches, and a hash-brown on the side that would be more appropriately dub
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