THE MYSTERY OF

STORYTELLING

STORIES ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR LIVES

Storytelling is considered an art….but there is much more

to it than meets the eye

Millions line up every year at reputed publishing houses to have their stories read and ,hopefully, published

HOW MANY MAKE THE CUT?

Accepted Rejected

1 Out of every 1000 aspirants

EXACTLY

So let’s

get down

to it…

What

makes a

good

story?

Most writers make the mistake of obsessively indulging their characters

At the cost of their audiences

I used to be

alive…..then I

started reading

this book.

As a result, your audience turns on you

ON THE OTHER HAND THERE ARE A GOOD NUMBER OF WRITERS WHO HAVE WOOED THEIR AUDIENCES AND HAVE A CULT FOLLOWING

AS WELL AS MANY OTHERS…

So how do you go from killing your audience to thrilling them?

SO…YOU

WANNA

KNOW THE

SECRET?

THE SECRET TO BEING SUCCESSFUL IS BEING INFIDEL…………TOWARDS YOUR CHARACTERS.

INSTEAD THE RELATION WITH THE READER NEEDS TO BE FIRMLY

ESTABLISHED

THEY NEED TO BE ENTERTAINED

SO WHAT’S THE FORMULA TO ESTABLISHING A REALTIONSHIP WITH THE READERS?

2500 years ago Aristotle

described the formula for

writing a good story with 3

simple words

PITY

FEAR

CATHARSIS

PITY

THIS IS THE FEELING OF EMPATHY

FOR THE CHARACTER / THE

FEELING OF BEING ABLE TO

RELATE TO HIS SITUATION.IT IS

ACHIEVED BY PUTTING THE

CHARACTER THROUGH SOME

UNDESERVED MISFORTUNE. Aww shucks!

He's got a jerk of an

elder brother as well

FEAR

THIS IS THE FEELING OF FEAR FOR THE

CHARACTER IN THE AUDIENCE WHICH

ORIGINATES DUE TO THE EMOTIONAL

CONNECT ESTABLISHED WITH HIM BY

THE FEELING OF PITY.IT IS USUALLY

ACHIEVED BY PLUNGING HIM INTO

FURTHER MISTORTUNE.

No no you idiot!!..Don’t

open the box.That

horrible brother of yours put a spider in there

CATHARSIS

THIS THE FEELING OF EMOTIONAL

RELEASE EXPERIENCED BY THE

AUDIENCE WHEN THE CHARACTER IS

PURGED OF HIS SITUATION AND

REALEASED FROM JEOPARDY.Haha…jerk’s been grounded for a month!!..Now

that li’l brother of his can finally use the PlayStation as much as he wants

Beethoven used almost the same 3 steps in his compositions to move his audience

Suffering

Struggle

Overcoming

So now we know….there IS

a formula…

So why are

stories so

important

anyway?

STORIES HELP US REHEARSE OUR

EMOTIONS,WHICH ARE AN INTEGRAL

PART OF OUR LIVES

ANOTHER IMPORTANT

PART OF STORYTELLING IS

KNOWING WHAT IS

RELEVANT TO THE STORY

AND KEEPING IT TO JUST

THAT

FAILURE TO DO SO RESULTS IN

THIS

ANOTHER TRICK TO GET

THE AUDIENCE

HOOKED,ESPECIALLY IN

MOVIES,IS THE USE OF

BEAUTIFUL AND STRIKING

IMAGES

WE’RE ALL ABOUT

ACTION.WHO NEEDS

DIALOGUE?

AMERICAN FILMS

HAVE FAR MORE

IMAGERY AND

FAR LESS

DIALOGUES THAN

BRITSH MOVIES.

DAMN!!!IT’S LIKE

I’M IN THE MOVIE!! THIS HELPS

STIMULATE A

FEELING OF

AUDIENCE

PARTICIPATION AND

A GREATER

ENJOYMENT OF THE

MOVIE

IT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY

AMERICAN MOVIES DO MUCH BETTER

AT THE BOX OFFICE THAN BRITISH

FILMS

SO TO RECAP….

A good story needs :

To emotionally connect with the

audience with PITY,FEAR and

CARTHASIS

To be RELEVANT in all its parts

Created by Deeptish Mukherjee,

Jadavpur University, during an

internship by Prof.Sameer Mathur, IIM

Lucknow

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