Kojo
@kojobaffoe
Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
@kojobaffoe
Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
The world we experience as ‘out there’ is actually a reconstruction of reality that is built inside our heads. It’s an act of creation by the storytelling brain.
We all want the complicated world we live in to make sense. So we tell ourselves stories to fill in the gaps of what are effectively blind spots.
“A story-teller must tell his story in such a way that the reader will not feel that his time has been wasted.”
But all storytellers, no matter who their intended audience, should beware of over-tightening their narratives. While it’s dangerous to leave readers feeling confused and abandoned, it’s just as risky to over-explain. Causes and effects should be shown rather than told; suggested rather than explained. If they’re not, curiosity will be extinguished
... See moreStories are everywhere. Stories are us. It’s story that makes us human.