Story Telling

Here’s a great pair of articles on how to tell a story. In these cases, they are from a leadership perspective, but I think it distills the essence of what makes a good blog post.

Simon Heap neatly summarizes the article he found.

In short, the four-part formula to good storytelling is:

1. Somebody…(a person, actor, group)
2. wanted…(what this person sought, desired, yearned for)
3. but…(complication, obstacle, conflict)
4. so…(resolution, climax, outcome, learning)

My third-grade son, who learned about writing stories a few weeks ago, could have told me this. Sometimes I can be a little dense

3 Comments

1. Dan said:

   Dan wanted to write something meaningful and witty in response, but he’s an idiot, so he wrote something stupid and predictable.

   The End.

   April 27th, 2006 at 7:27 am
2. y0mbo said:

   lol.
   Perfectly told!

   April 27th, 2006 at 7:44 am
3. Dan said:

   Hehe Neat site, that!

   April 27th, 2006 at 11:19 am

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