Storytelling in 3 Words
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Urbanism Speakeasy
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One of my favorite quotes is from a writer named Michael Margolis: “If you want to learn about a culture, listen to their stories. If you want to change a culture, change the stories.”
Thousands of books have been written about how to write. You could spend the rest of your days on earth learning about story formats, language, sentence structure, and so on.
But I want to give you an easy way to get started.
Storytelling in 3 words: Hero. Conflict. Resolution.
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