In preparation for the launch of Story Bistro, I reached out to my readers and asked for your best storytelling questions. At least half of the ones you sent were a variation on this one: I work in two distinct areas. How can I incorporate them both into my story? Or... ...
Two theatrical types of storytelling, tragedy and comedy, caused Athenian audiences to lose themselves in sadness and laughter respectively. Tragedy, for Aristotle, was particularly potent in its capacity to enlist and then purge the emotions of those watching the story unfold on the stage, so he...
From documented oraltraditions in Australia, the Balkans and other parts of the world we know thatspecialised storytellers and poets can recite from memory literally thousandsof lines, in verse or prose, verbatim - word for word. But while memory isrightly considered an art in itself, it is cl...
Two theatrical types of storytelling, tragedy and comedy, caused Athenian audiences to lose themselves in sadness and laughter respectively. Tragedy, for Aristotle, was particularly potent in its capacity to enlist and then purge the emotions of those watching the story unfold on the stage, so he...
When she tells a story, I can tell she feeds off her audience, whether it’s one or several, for cues that her story resonates. If you’re struggling with how to get into a scene or story, you might try telling it to a friend or two. While some people say you don’t want to...
teachers give students more time to process the language and therefore they have more chance of understanding. When students first hear vocabulary or grammar, the necessary gap between each word can be as long as two full seconds. As students get used to the language structures, the teacher can...
re selling. Use ad copy that speaks to yourtarget audienceand emphasizes the unique features and benefits of your product or service. If this can be distilled into one or two words, it can give users the impression of cleanness and minimalism. Take Dior’s skincare product line, for ...
and unlike western comic books that we may be more familiar with seeing printed in full color, are primarily published in black and white.Mangais the Japanese word for comics published in Japan, with the word itself comprising of twokanjicharacters: man (漫) meaning 'whimsical' and ga (画)...
To be two: racing and e/racing myself as a non-Aboriginal woman and mother to Aboriginal children If I use the word "story", what does it mean to you as a reader? Perhaps like me, the word story takes you back to a place in your childhood where everything was lived through your ...
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