Tag: storytelling

Stories are what’s left after our experiences have come and gone

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I won’t lie, a lot of my experiences with the real world have let me down, but I could always count on creating my own world to escape it all. Doodles, paintings, crafts, choreography, until eventually learning how to pour my heart out on paper by giving life to my thoughts. I like to call this place “the nothing space”. Turning some of life’s most painful moments into something perpetually alluring helped me to survive them. Overcome them. learn from them. And while, of course, my life has certainly not been all doom and gloom, writing has helped me celebrate and appreciate the good times, too.

https://kaitlynalexisorth.com/about

It makes me giddy just thinking about it

Keywords: big magic , creativity , elizabeth gilbert , writing

[Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear”] is changing my life at the moment – as someone who has lost a bit of inspiration, of motivation, to write, with a demanding day job and other priorities. Elizabeth is reminding me of why it’s important to pursue your creative passions without fear or agenda, and without this, I wouldn’t be close to sitting in a coffee shop, writing this post, and thinking about what I love.

https://aprilinhk.com/2016/01/10/on-believing-in-magic

When I have a story that somehow forms in my head, it refuses to let go until I feed it and feed it until I need to write it down or I feel like I might burst, it’ll be all I can think about and in a way will just consume me

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I want to share that journey, and any other good reads I find along the way, here. So if you’d like to stick around and come along on the journey with me than I am glad to have you here!

https://shannonrgross.com/2020/11/22/hi-there

Cron suggests that stories fail when they are merely a series of events

Keywords: writing , david moldawer , lisa cron , novel writing

This happened and then this happened and then this happened. It’s like you telling me in boring detail how you drove to my house. Quite frankly, I don’t care how you got here, I just care that you’ve arrived safely.

Good stories keep moving you forward because something happens that leads to something else happening. There’s a causal relationship between events that connects them and makes sense to the reader. Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes it takes a while for that reason to be revealed.

The author’s job is to make you wonder what happened and why it happened.

https://margaretmoon.com/2020/11/22/how-stories-work