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

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1 Out of every 1000 aspirants

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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’lbrother 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

StruggleOvercoming

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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