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What is fiction?
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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
Remember: First identify a good story, and only then see what problems it might help solve.
Matthew Dicks • Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
Let 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.
Matthew Dicks • Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
There are endless riffs on story shape – sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal explorations and excavations of an original tune. Often you may have to search long and hard to find it, but the tune – even in its absence – will be there. In music, poetry, film – arguably all art – digression merely confirms the archetype’s importance.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction
Julianblog.nearfuturelaboratory.com
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.comSeek out the moments when you felt your heart move.
Matthew Dicks • Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
