storytelling: a moodboard
by Alex Dobrenko · updated 4mo ago
storytelling: a moodboard
by Alex Dobrenko · updated 4mo ago
The late great Mary Oliver’s advice for life ❣️ “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
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“It goes back to the idea of failure as a core comedy principle. A pathetic attempt at something big flopping a bit is always funny.”
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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.
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When the storytelling in a culture goes bad the result is decadence
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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
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