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Principles of Heroism

25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer. When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult.

25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer

Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.” Today, writing well is more important than ever. Schéma actantiel. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.

Schéma actantiel

Storytelling e schema narrativo. Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling. Back in 1995, Kurt Vonnegut gave a lecture in which he described his theory about the shapes of stories.

Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling

In the process, he plotted several examples on a blackboard. “There is no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers,” he said. “They are beautiful shapes.” Artificial Intelligence Identifies the Six Main Arcs in Storytelling: Welcome to the Brave New World of Literary Criticism. Is the singularity upon us?

Artificial Intelligence Identifies the Six Main Arcs in Storytelling: Welcome to the Brave New World of Literary Criticism

AI seems poised to replace everyone, even artists whose work can seem like an inviolably human industry. Or maybe not. The Seven Basic Plots: Christopher Booker Examines Common Narratives in Storytelling. According to the British journalist and author Christopher Booker, there are only seven ‘storylines’ in the world.

The Seven Basic Plots: Christopher Booker Examines Common Narratives in Storytelling

In his book, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, a work that took over forty years to write, Booker surveys world literature, outlining commonalities and showing that, although there are a multitude of tales and endless variety in the telling, all narratives are really variations of the basic seven. Booker’s work is detailed, interesting, and very long—over 700 pages—but his message is simple. Whether they represent the deep psychological structures of human experience or whether they are merely constructs of tradition, no matter what the story, you’ll find one or more of these basic plotlines: Rags to Riches Someone who has seemed to the world quite commonplace is shown to have been hiding a second, more exceptional self within.

Although it may seem reductive to restrict all narrative to these seven basic plots, it is actually quite instructive. Hero's journey. "A Practical Guide to Joseph Cambell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Christopher Vogler © 1985 “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”

Hero's journey

In the long run, one of the most influential books of the 20th century may turn out to be Joseph Campbell’s THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES. The book and the ideas in it are having a major impact on writing and story-telling, but above all on movie-making. Filmmakers like John Boorman, George Miller, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Coppola owe their successes in part to the ageless patterns that Joseph Campbell identifies in the book.

The ideas Campbell presents in this and other books are an excellent set of analytical tools. Article Writing: Three Core Elements of Storytelling. Think of a story.

Article Writing: Three Core Elements of Storytelling

Any story. Maybe just Cinderella, for instance. What does it bring up right away to your mind? 1) Sequence 2) Suspense and 3) The roller coaster. Emotions - Feelings Words. Sesquipedaedalus: Prettiest Words. The 8 Steps of A Great Digital Storytelling Process. March , 2014 Integrating digital storytelling requires more than just knowledge of the web tools to use for creating and sharing digital stories, the process if much more important.

The 8 Steps of A Great Digital Storytelling Process

Helping kids and students learn through the use of digital storytelling entails the implementation of a well-paced plan that clearly outlines both the objectives and expectations behind this integration. La struttura o scaletta della storia di un film hollywoodiano. Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling. The Psychology of Flow: What Game Design Reveals about the Deliberate Tensions of Great Writing. By Maria Popova A full creative life requires equally that we cultivate a capacity for boredom, as legendary psychoanalyst Adam Phillips asserted, and learn to welcome rather than avoid difficulty, as Nietzsche believed.

The Psychology of Flow: What Game Design Reveals about the Deliberate Tensions of Great Writing

Great stories, like great life-stories, are woven of the same interplay between fertile ennui and surmountable frustration — so argues writer Peter Turchi in one especially rewarding section of the altogether stimulating A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic (public library | IndieBound). In a sentiment that illuminates the psychological machinery behind Nabokov’s famous assertion that “a good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader,” Turchi recounts poet C. Dale Young’s experience of reading and rereading Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: The first time he read it, he said, the book seemed perfectly clear. 7 diamants en Storytelling pour les marketeurs. ConseilsMarketing.Fr a une nouvelle fois le plaisir d’accueillir Stéphane Dangel un des experts français en storytelling et fondateur de l’Université du Storytelling.

Voici quelques petits bijoux de storytelling qu’il a croisé sur son chemin ces derniers temps : avec un constat, l’iPad, les applications mobile et la réalité augmentée se mettent au storytelling. 1 – WWF piège (amicalement) les internautes 2011 étant l’année de la forêt, WWF ne pouvait pas rester inactif. L’association a donc voulu nous alerter sur les importations illégales de bois tropical. Irrésistible pour tout internaute en quête de bon plan.