Story structure - the hidden framework that hangs your story together
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Story structure - the hidden framework that hangs your story together
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Summary
Story Structure - The Hidden Framework That Hangs Your Story Together is a book for anyone wanting to craft a compelling narrative. It teaches readers how to identify the key elements of a story, their order of appearance, and their effect on the audience. The book covers topics such as character arcs, plot structure, and dialogue. It provides useful techniques to help create stories that captivate readers.
Key Learnings:
• Learn the key elements of story structure and the order in which they should be written
• Gain insight into the impact of story structure on reader engagement
• Work with techniques to craft a compelling narrative
Why UX Designers Should Read It:UX Designers often create digital experiences that tell stories. This book provides them with the tools and strategies to craft narratives that engage and connect with their audience.
Suggested Reading:UX Designers may also find Designing for Empathy: Creating Meaningful Digital Experiences by Jonathan Shariat a beneficial read. It teaches readers how to tap into their customers' emotions to create engaging user experiences.
🎀 Highlights
Imagine making up a bedtime story for a small child. Who do we put at the center of the action? The child. In their imagination, they become a princess, warrior or wizard.
The hero’s journey starts with an ordinary world. That world contains an ordinary character, going about an ordinary life. Something calls them away from that world – a threat or a quest. Although reluctant, circumstances compel the hero to take on the quest. They face hazards and threats.
What Campbell prods us to remember is that it’s always the audience who play the hero.
In Overcoming the Monster the hero sets out to defeat evil, which threatens peace and prosperity in his world. Jaws , James Bond, and The Magnificent Seven are all archetypal examples of this. Classics such as The Wizard of Oz , and Alice in Wonderland meanwhile, are Voyage and Return stories.
most presentations work really well with a really simple formula — Hook-​Meat-​Payoff.
The Hook should get your audience on the edge 7 of their seat, leaning forward, and give them a sense of what’s coming.
It could be a personal story. It could be a bold statement. It isn’t an agenda slide. That’s an anti-​hook. Yes, it tells people what’s coming, but it’s a recipe for settle back, relax and take a snooze.
Meat is how you organize your content. It has to organize what you say in a way that engages and makes sense to your audience.
Whatever you do, chunk the meat of your presentation into chewable, tasty bites.
Imagine making up a bedtime story for a small child. Who do we put at the center of the action? The child. In their imagination, they become a princess, warrior or wizard.
The hero’s journey starts with an ordinary world. That world contains an ordinary character, going about an ordinary life. Something calls them away from that world – a threat or a quest. Although reluctant, circumstances compel the hero to take on the quest. They face hazards and threats.
What Campbell prods us to remember is that it’s always the audience who play the hero.
In Overcoming the Monster the hero sets out to defeat evil, which threatens peace and prosperity in his world. Jaws , James Bond, and The Magnificent Seven are all archetypal examples of this. Classics such as The Wizard of Oz , and Alice in Wonderland meanwhile, are Voyage and Return stories.
most presentations work really well with a really simple formula — Hook-​Meat-​Payoff.
The Hook should get your audience on the edge 7 of their seat, leaning forward, and give them a sense of what’s coming.
It could be a personal story. It could be a bold statement. It isn’t an agenda slide. That’s an anti-​hook. Yes, it tells people what’s coming, but it’s a recipe for settle back, relax and take a snooze.
Meat is how you organize your content. It has to organize what you say in a way that engages and makes sense to your audience.
Whatever you do, chunk the meat of your presentation into chewable, tasty bites.
