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originally made to collect inspo for Moodboard (Alex's version) https://sublimeinternet.substack.com/p/moodboard-alexs-version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
“You are weak and raw and broken, and that's okay. That's where real life begins. Throw yourself into that rawness., Dive into a bunch of stories about absorbing and leaning into disappointment and loss and melancholy as a way of moving through it.”
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Heather Havrilesky,
How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Mo... See more
―
Heather Havrilesky,
How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Mo... See more
A quote from How to Be a Person in the World
We might imagine structure as a form of call-and-response. A question arises organically from the story and then the story, very considerately, answers it. If we want to make good structure, we just have to be aware of what question we are causing the reader to ask, then answer that question.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
A lot of the work in building Sublime has been, what do I want from the web? And personally, I want to follow my curiosity wherever it leads . Without sifting through mountains of clickbait and SEO and content designed to feed an algorithm, I want to mindfully collect the pieces of the internet that resonate with me. And I want to do this in a spac... See more
Josh Kramer • 0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ a Platform With No Likes, No Follower Count, and No Comments
In real life, the success or failure of each individual performance often plays out in the form of concrete, physical action —you get invited over for dinner, or you lose the friendship, or you get the job. Online, performance is mostly arrested in the nebulous realm of sentiment, through an unbroken stream of hearts and likes and eyeballs, aggregat
... See moreJia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Stories are entrusted to storytellers by the elders. But these storytellers are not meant to repeat the narrative verbatim; they are expected to understand these stories and, through them, reflect on what the community needs to hear at any given moment. This temporal gathering, both in and around a story, acknowledges the personal subjectivities al... See more
shiftspace.pub • On Gathering
