Next, the hero or central character of your story must meet someone who listens to and understands their problems. Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guideto Brain Science to Hook Readers from theVery First SentencebyLisa Cron They also stir up emotions in the hearts of a target audience and they remember lessons from the story long after the end. It’s also a threat to the status game to which we’ve invested the efforts of our lives. To our subconscious, if another tribe is allowed to win, their victory won’t merely pull us down the hierarchy but will destroy the hierarchy completely. Our loss in status will be complete and irreversible. This removal of the ability to claim status meets the psychologist’s definition of humiliation, that ‘annihilation of the self’ which underlies a saturnine suite of murderous behaviours, from spree shootings to honour killings. When a group’s collective status feels threatened and they fear even the possibility of humiliation by another group, the result can be massacre, crusade and genocide.

Stories are also more impactful than facts, figures, logic and reason because they appeal to people’s values and beliefs. What Types of Stories Can You Tell? The story's ending should answer definitely whether or not that main character has outgrown his or her fatal flaw, or if it has grown ten times worse. The Storyteller’s Secret: From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don’tby Carmine Gallo I got a lot of answers, but no magic bullet. It was stupid of me to expect one. At the end of the day, all the advice in the world is just as good as your application of it, and not all of it is applicable for everyone. You have to cater to your own individual circumstances.

There are three parts to this book. The first section, the longest, presents the steps necessary to craft a captivating story. He breaks the art of crafting a story into fourteen steps. From story selection, to finding a memory hook, to planning the end of the story, the author shares ways to plan out a story.

As a consequence, he must go into hiding in Italy and eventually return and assume his place as head of a powerful crime family.

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Implore your husband not to leave his clothes on the floor, and the next day you can see there is a floor in the room. Tell him a story about a husband showing his loveby folding his clothes; and, how in return, his wife stopped collecting and filling up the kitchen cabinets with bags and bags. One of the first books you should take a look at if you want to learn how to write a better story is Contagious: Why Things Catch On, by Jonah Berger. Why are people so interested in certain topics? How can you communicate that idea in a way people want to pay attention? Do you want to learn how to make your audience move with your words? This is a book that would make a great read for just about everyone; however, many of the lessons can be directly applied to storytelling. Throughout the book, Ryan Holiday will clearly explain the concepts he is using. That way, you can get an inside look at how he structured his own book, figuring out if these lessons can be applied to the stories you want to write.

My main problem with nonfiction textbook style books is when they give me personal opinion I didn’t ask for. I didn’t need to hear that Native American origin stories and legends are ‘rubbish’ within the authors opinion. And while it does talk about how religion originates from stories I felt like it could have been more sensitively done. Less implying all religions are fictions because this is some peoples beliefs, and it didn't need to be stated that way to get the point across that it wanted to. Change is also something that people try to control (they can't but they try). This universal pattern is called, 'the theory of control'. When readers see traits they share with characters in stories, they become invested in the outcome which keeps them reading. Or when readers see traits they don't believe they have, but do, they're hooked.In Star Wars, Luke meets Obi-Wan Kenobi who then explains to Luke how he can escape his ordinary life and go on an adventure to rescue a princess.