Want to tell a story that rivets readers from the very first sentence? In this Meetup Live event, you’ll get the chance to learn how to craft intriguing stories and engage your audience’s attention, whether they’re strangers, colleagues, or friends.
Watch this recording for a storytelling workshop with Lisa Cron, author of Wired for Story, Story Genius, and most recently, Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life. During this event, Lisa will help you zero in on writing strategies that will make readers want to keep going (hint: it’s not always about beautiful writing), and how to get it on the page. By the end, you’ll be able to hone in on what your story is really about before you start writing (or if you’re in the midst of your umpteenth rewrite before you write another word). You’ll not only produce a more powerful narrative, chances are you’ll drastically reduce your rewrite time.
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- Introduction (2:08)
- Tips to write well (5:46)
- Writing an effective story (9:35)
- Debunking writing myths (13:25)
- Examples of effectifve writing
- Q&A (41:37)
Top Storytelling Q&A Questions & Resources
- What are deceptively difficult storytelling goals?
- In context, really what that means is whatever problem they’re facing, in the beginning, they want to think is really pretty simple going into it and it gets more and more difficult going into it. That in a nutshell is everything you try to do to make it better only makes it worse and that’s what we’re talking about deceptively difficult problems.
- What is the relationship between misbeliefs in different lengths of stories, for example, a short story versus a novel?
- That’s a great question, but a hard question to answer. I’m thinking in a short story, yeah it’s something where it is smaller or it’s one piece of it that suggests the whole if that makes sense. In a novel, you have much more time to dig deeper into the layers of the misbelief, which by that time has become so absorbed into the person’s life it’s in their reaction to everything that happens until it finally comes to the surface.
- In a business context, who do you see as your protagonist?
- In the business world, the protagonist is almost always the audience, the person whose mind you’re trying to change. You want the protagonist, if you’re talking about a business sense, it’s got to be the person you want to follow your call to action.
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Last modified on January 3, 2022
