4 Rules Every Great Story Lives By
<p>Everyone loves being able to tell a great story. Whether you’re an acclaimed novelist, an amateur poet, or just the jokester of your friend group,<strong> you probably thrive off of being able to articulate a series of events</strong> in a captivating way.</p>
<p>In high school, my best friend and I competed in improv competitions where we would have two minutes to plan out a five-minute skit with characters and objects we’d only just been assigned.</p>
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<p>“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” — Brandon Sanderson, fantasy and science fiction writer</p>
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<p>That was probably the greatest crash course on storytelling you ever could have given me — because <strong>slowly but surely we caught on to the formula,</strong> the series of rules, that seems to work every time. Here are a few simple truths that made our short stories work:</p>
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