Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question:
“What makes a good story?”
They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard:
“If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats…... See more
We chase what's sexy and miss what matters
- Excitement starts something. Execution completes it.
- Speed makes a good story. Velocity makes a difference.
- Complexity makes you sound smart. Focusing on the basics shows you are.
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in a time of greater access to information and an explosion in the number of choices we have it becomes harder to cling onto a simple story. Perhaps it’s time to accept that an increasingly complex world we need to adapt to more nuanced stories and resist the urge to hone in on the one that is the most black-or-white.