Don’t let anyone tell you what a story is, what it needs to include. As an experiment, write a non-story. It will have a chance of being different.
- Charlie Kaufman: why I wrote Being John Malkovich in The Guardian
THERE ARE THOSE WHO LIKE STRUCTURE…
There are three necessary elements in a story—exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as “John Fortescue was a solicitor in the little town of X”; development as “One day Mrs. Fortescue told him she was about to leave him for another man”; and drama as “You will do nothing of the kind,” he said.
FRANK O’CONNOR
AND THOSE WHO DON’T…
I don’t like plots, I don’t know what a plot means. I can’t stand the idea of anything starting with a beginning, middle and end, it really scares me. Because my life is too random and too confused and I enjoy it that way.
- Maira Kalman speaking about story, and her sketchbook diaries here.
3 More TED talks about storytelling.
Related
- 25 Things You Should Know About Story Structure from Chuck Wendig
- How To Create A Story, some basics from Kindle Author
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