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originally made to collect inspo for Moodboard (Alex's version) https://sublimeinternet.substack.com/p/moodboard-alexs-version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
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
“Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.”
~ Roger Schank
When the storytelling in a culture goes bad the result is decadence
Rushkoff, Douglas • Present Shock
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
Useful writing tells people something true and important that they didn't already know, and tells them as unequivocally as possible.
Paul Graham • How to Write Usefully
Male storytelling is a sublimated hunting narrative, female storytelling is a sublimated gathering narrative. One is born of brags, the other is born of rumors. One kind of writing throws a metaphorical spear at a metaphorical beast, attempting to kill it and bring back the carcass. The other kind puts relatively unresisting things into bags, and e... See more
Venkatesh Rao • Boat Stories
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
As a storyteller, do you ever think that means we’ve run out of things to say?
No. Families get together and they tell stories. How many times have you talked about that summer where dad drove the car into the lake, or whatever? There’s something reassuring to revisiting stories, the kind of ancient storytelling tradition of the campfire: “Tell me ... See more
No. Families get together and they tell stories. How many times have you talked about that summer where dad drove the car into the lake, or whatever? There’s something reassuring to revisiting stories, the kind of ancient storytelling tradition of the campfire: “Tell me ... See more
Finn Cohen • After Five Seasons of ‘Fargo,’ Noah Hawley Is Still Rooting for America
Noah Howley