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A great story is memorable. It stays with you. The connection of ideas develops into a problem, its resolution and the characters that mobilise the narrative and appeal to our humanity. Not all stories hook us in. Some appeal to a common experience, others to a yearning within. That is the power of the cause – our fourth storytelling truth.
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This is the third post about truth in storytelling. The previous posts dealt with Storytelling-truth-to the-teller and Storytelling truth to the audience. This one deals with Truth to the moment.
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
~ Winston Churchill
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Can you remember a good story? Well if it was good, it was probably memorable. But why? What makes the difference between stories you remember and those you don’t?
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Truth isn’t about what actually happens but more about how what has happened is interpreted.
~ Brian Pulsifer