storytelling

I make my own stories and I'm very obsessed with not being nostalgic, because I think that 90 percent of the world is too nostalgic. They don't have the courage to face the present and make stories that are relevant today, about life today...

– Guillermo del Toro

Work backwards from the emotion you're trying to create in the reader. Then let the structure follow.

Storytelling is really just in and out points. Knowing the start, knowing the ending, then working out how everything between bridges the two

True in macro and in micro. Every scene is just a bridge between 2 distinct points of change in a larger transition

As the world around us becomes increasingly complex, chaotic, and confounding, writing remains one of the most reliable tools we have to root ourselves into more truthful, nourishing lives. Carefully crafted words help us unearth and resolve the self-sabotaging stories stewing in our subconscious. They act as a beacon, beckoning us towards who we’r

The people who get to impose their metaphors on the culture get to define what we consider to be true.

~Lakoff & Johnson

storytelling combined with differentiated reference material becomes the key skill in an AI world