One way to lose Narrative Warfare is to fight like it is a battle over information. One way to win is to get your adversary to fight as though it is a battle over information. We have taken the losing ...
Show, don’t tell. It’s probably the most overused phrase in the storyteller’s caboodle, but that’s probably because it’s true. There is nothing more tedious than an expository slog in the opening act ...
In a Narrative 4 story exchange, people tell stories from their lives, whch are then shared in small groups. National Book Award winner Colum McCann, a co-founder of Narrative 4, has forged a ...
We all wear multiple hats. There's our workplace identity, which can often be defined by our job title or our position on an org chart. At home, we are someone else—a mother, father, sports fan, etc.
If humans were fish, our water would be narratives. We never experience reality unmediated. Light and sound filter through our senses and we impose meaning and order, building our familiar perceptual ...
For most of film and television history, supporting characters existed with a clear narrative function: assist the protagonist, provide comic relief, move the plot forward, and quietly exit when the ...
“All great literature can be reduced to two stories: a man goes on a journey, and a stranger comes to town.” This axiom, most often attributed to Leo Tolstoy, speaks to the power of the stories we ...