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Out of less they will attempt to capture a whole and present it – normally in a linked chain of cause and effect – in a manner dependent on the type of tale and genre they wish to employ.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
A Risky Promise
storytelling
1) situation - starting point
2) desire - what does the character want
3) conflict - what gets in the way
4) change - what is the shift that happens
5) result - how does it end
story is a sense-making device. It identifies a necessary ambition, defines challenges that are battling to keep us from achieving that ambition, and provides a plan to help us conquer those challenges.
Donald Miller • Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
The way Bob sees it, a story is ‘a design in five parts’, those elements being The Inciting Event, which sets everything in motion (e.g. boy meets girl), Progressive Complications (boy discovers girl’s dad works for Russian mafia), Crisis (boy and girl inadvertently uncover mafia dad’s evil plot to blackmail UN with stolen plutonium), Climax
... See moreMike Skinner • The Story of The Streets
Our inability to cope with randomness, our terror of a world out of control, throws us into this total reliance on narrative
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
We are creating a narrative that is but one of many possible narratives. To heighten your awareness, you might even want to rewrite the story another time.