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This use of narrative to simplify the complex is also true of memory. Human memory is ‘episodic’ (we tend to experience our messy pasts as a highly simplified sequences of causes and effects) and ‘autobiographical’ (those connected episodes are imbued with personal and moral meaning).
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
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
Set up and call to action Things go well, initial objective achieved Things start to go wrong as forces of antagonism gather strength Things go really badly wrong, precipitating crisis Crisis and climax. Final battle with antagonist. Matters resolve for good or ill.