writing 101
What is fiction?
writing 101
Good stories are explorations of the human condition; thrilling voyages into foreign minds.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
Seek out the moments when you felt your heart move.
Matthew Dicks • Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
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.comRemember: 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
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
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
a 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?
Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction
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