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“Audiences love both the feeling part (reliving the life) and the thinking part (figuring out the puzzle) of a story. Every good story has both.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“Good storytelling lets the audience relive events in the present so they can understand the forces, choices, and emotions that led the character to do what he did.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“Any character who goes after a desire and is impeded is forced to struggle (otherwise the story is over.) And that struggle makes him change. So the ultimate goal of the dramatic code, and of the storyteller, is to present a change in a character or to illustrate why that change did not occur.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“The story world isn't a copy of life as it is. It's life as human beings imagine it could be. It is human life condensed and heightened so that the audience can gain a better understanding of how life itself works.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“No individual element in your story, including the hero, will work unless you first create it and define it in relation to all the other elements.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“To empathize with someone means to care about and understand him. That’s why the trick to keeping the audience’s interest in a character, even when the character is not likable or is taking immoral actions, is to show the audience the hero’s motive.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“time. Take a lot of it at the beginning of the writing process. I’m not talking about hours or even days. I’m talking about weeks. Don’t make the amateurish mistake of getting a hot premise and immediately running off to write scenes. You’ll get twenty to thirty pages into the story and run into a dead end you can’t escape.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“The multistrand plot is clearly a much more simultaneous form of storytelling, emphasizing the group, or the minisociety, and how the characters compare.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“Step 1: Write Something That May Change Your Life”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“Subplot is not one of the twenty-two steps because it’s not usually present and because it is really a plot of its own with its own structure. But it’s a great technique. It improves the character, theme, and texture of your story. On the other hand, it slows the desire line—the narrative drive. So you have to decide what is most important to you.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“In the vast majority of stories, a character with weaknesses struggles to achieve something and ends up changed (positively or negatively) as a result.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“Desire never stops. Equilibrium is temporary. The self-revelation is never simple, and it cannot guarantee the hero a satisfying life from that day forward. since a great story is always a living thing, its ending is no more final and certain than any other part of the story.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“Tristram Shandy isn’t a story with a main plotline interrupted by digressions. It is a story of digressions interrupted by what appears to be a main plotline.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“Genres are types of stories, with predetermined characters, themes, worlds, symbols, and plots. Genre plots are usually big, emphasizing revelations that are so stunning they sometimes flip the story upside down. Of course, these big plots lose some of their power by the fact that they are predetermined. The audience knows generally what is going to happen in any genre story, so only the particulars surprise them.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“I am sick of the quarrels of nations and kings, and I would not give a ha'pence for any empire other than our valley, if that can content your ambition.”
― Naomi Novik, quote from Tongues of Serpents
“It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Roboter-Visionen
“I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression
Hide in sleep
Damage myself in dreams
Wake up older, slightly more used.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die
“My voice mail message says I work nights and sleep days. Everyone who knows me, knows this. And still, people who aren’t employed at the Nursing Office feel compelled to call me before three P.M. Certain people feel compelled to call me repeatedly, until I pick up—namely, dicks.”
― Cassie Alexander, quote from Nightshifted
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