up:: [[🏠 My Home]] Tags:: #🗺️ # Storytelling MOC Why should we tell stories? - [[Finding and crafting stories creates meaning out of your life]] - [[Storytelling dampens the emotional hold an event has over you]] - [[Telling stories switches your audience into creative mode rather than analytical mode]] - [[Finding stories in your life slows time down]] - [[When we imagine doing something, the same parts of our brain activated in actually doing it get activated]]. In essence hearing stories practices of for real life situations. - [[Creating a story out of something makes it vastly more memorable]] - [[Stories have the power to change our aim in life]] - [[Why do we relate to stories]] - [[Are fact and fiction opposites|Fiction can sometimes be more "true" of reality than reality]] How to tell better stories - Follow the [[SUCCESs framework]] - [[A story is a reflection of change over time]] - Book summary on [[Storyworthy]] describes how - [[2 Simple Frameworks That Will Make You a Better Storyteller]] - [[Complex stories are emergent|Add complexity into your stories]] - [[Begin with action in your stories]] What makes a great story? - One of the main topics you discussed are what makes a great story? I have a note in my notetaking system on this from years of research. To summarize some of the things I find make a great story are: - Stories are simply intention with obstacle. - There is change over time. The character(s) start the story different then they end. (Unless you have an antihero journey which is a fascinating story arc in itself). - There are interesting relationship dynamics. My favorite stories are ones that have characters fundamentally different from each other. They force each other to think. - There is complexity. As you said, a great story has a clear meaning on the first go, but you can take different meanings every time. - Great stories follow "but" and "therefore" instead of "and" structuring. There's nothing worse then hearing someone tell a story connecting everything with and. It's boring. Nothing leads off each other. Great stories are connected by but and therefore. - Great stories have a five second moment (or more), a moment in time where a character fundamentally sees the world a different way. - Great stories have stakes. Reasons audiences keep listening. Often the stakes have nothing to do with what's actually being said. For example, Jurrasic Park has dinosaurs to add stakes but it's really about a guy learning to love children. - Great stories have surprise. As you said, some of your favorite stories flip what the whole story is about on its head in the end. - Great stories hint at things to happen later on in the beginning. You can see these hints especially after hearing it again. - Great stories are compressed in time. That's why daily human life is usually boring. There's too much nothing to be interesting. However, over a broader time frame they can be interesting. [[Stories are owned both by the storyteller and by the audience]]. Best resources on storytelling - [[Storyworthy]] - [[Made to Stick]]