Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.
A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.
Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
I don't look at stories in genres. A good story is a good story, no matter what planet it happens on, whether the characters are mice or human or whatever. That's how I look at it.
While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.
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