writing 101
What is fiction?
writing 101
What is fiction?
the story shape is structured around how they find, retrieve and finally master the quality in their life that has eluded them.
That’s how we find what we need: We start with ourselves. Our personal experiences. Our observations of the world. Our successes and failures and everything in between. From there, we find stories, and from those stories, we can find the content we need to connect, communicate, and convince. Almost all my metaphors are personal stories or
... See moreLet me say it again: Every great story ever told is essentially about a five-second moment of transformation or realization, and the purpose of the story is to bring that moment to the greatest clarity possible.
They help storytellers understand the mechanics of a story — such as structure, character arcs, and conflict — without dictating specific choices.