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.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
It all comes down to what is best for those particular genres, and if you believe in the stories that you're telling and the characters that you like that you want to tell those stories with, you can pretty much apply it to any genre.
If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.
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.
What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.
I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters.
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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