Storytelling / Narrative
by Jason Shen · updated 6d ago
Storytelling / Narrative
- Don't Edit Before You're Done with a Draft
On that note, don't waste time editing ANYTHING -- not even a misspelled word -- until you're done with a full draft.
When I finished the first draft it was about 100,000 words. The first thing I did was go back to the beginning and delete the first 30,000 of them. They were boring and unnecessary but I had... See morefrom On Writing Better: 43 Things I Learned from My Insane 2 Years of Study
Jason Shen added 6d ago
Bold advice to just put everything on the page before any editing
- If you’re totally lost on what to focus on getting better at, focus on braiding.
Narrative-style writing (fiction and nonfiction) has four major components:- Action: Things happening
- Dialogue: What people are saying
- Description: The environment around the people and events
- Interiority: The characters internal reactions to the place and action
And you co... See morefrom On Writing Better: 43 Things I Learned from My Insane 2 Years of Study
Jason Shen added 6d ago
Nat Eliason on how to improve your narrative-style writing
- As a first point, the Hook, we get to know Harry Potter and the story’s context. He lives with his aunt and uncle in a basement. He later discovers that he is a wizard and that his destiny is to go to Hogwarts, the school of magic. This phase is Plot Turn 1, i.e., the first turning point in the plot.
The antagonist begins to be recognized. A troll a... See morefrom The 7-Point Story Structure
Jason Shen added 6d ago
The 7 Point Story Structure
Unlock Your Storytelling Superpower | Robbie Crabtree (Coach)
Jason Shen added 16d ago
- Gladwell: I get attracted to stories that strike me as having potential. Outliers began, for example, with the chapter on the Jewish lawyers. I was talking to someone whose father was one of those lawyers, and she made this observation: “They are all like my dad. They are all from the Bronx, and their parents were all in the garment industry. They ... See more
from A Conversation with Outlier Malcolm Gladwell
Jason Shen added 2mo ago
Ironic that Gladwell thought about groups for a book about outliers
1. RESULT Result thumbnails feature a visualized result Whether it's a physical product or a skill, the curiosity is driven by the questions: "How did they do it?" and commonly, "How can I do it, too?" The more sought-after the result, the more clickable the thumbnail https://t.co/2IoLC0i505
Jason Shen added 2mo ago
Each example is also a great way to think about how to hook someone into a story:
Result—how did they get that?
Transformation—how did they go from this to that?
Comparison—what’s different between experience A and B?
Novelty—I’ve never thought about that thing before
Story—I need to know what happened with that
Moment—I need to know exactly what happened nextIdeas related to this collection