writing 101
What is fiction?
writing 101
They help storytellers understand the mechanics of a story — such as structure, character arcs, and conflict — without dictating specific choices.
Tony Martignetti • Curation is the new leadership superpower. Here are 3 ways to adopt a curation mindset
the story shape is structured around how they find, retrieve and finally master the quality in their life that has eluded them.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
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
Nathan Baughx.coma good story, by definition, has to be smarter than the person who wrote it. Because if it’s less smart, that means the writer wasn’t writing a story but assembling a piece of Ikea furniture. Most of the masterpieces I’ve encountered were smarter than their creators, and often more decent and purely good than them, too.
Etgar Keret • So you think you can tell?
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 moreMatthew Dicks • Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
Seek out the moments when you felt your heart move.
Matthew Dicks • Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
once felt this, but now I feel this. Stories must reflect change of some kind. It need not always be positive change, and the change need not be monumental. In fact, stories about failure, embarrassment, and shame are fantastic. Stories about trying desperately to achieve a goal and failing spectacularly are beloved. Even when progress is made, the
... See moreMatthew Dicks • Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
We often assume that the world of today would stun a visitor from fifty years ago. In truth, for every miraculous iPad there are countless partly broken realities: WiFi passwords, connectivity, battery life, privacy and compatibility amongst others. The real skill of creating a compelling and engaging view of the future lies not in designing the... See more