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Tag Archives: story

einfetzengemeinschaft: “When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard …

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Posted byChristoph17/08/2014Posted inUncategorizedTags: margaret atwood, narration, queue, story

I’d just say to aspiring journalists or writers—who I meet a lot of—do it now. Don’t wait for permission to make something that’s interesting or amusing to you. Just do it now. Don’t wait. Find a story idea, start making it, give yourself a deadline, show it to people who’ll give you notes to make …

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Posted byChristoph26/07/2014Posted inUncategorizedTags: advice, ira glass, life, quote, story, writing

Ira Glass … has said that “the power of anecdote is so great that it has a momentum in and of itself.” He contends, “no matter how boring the facts are,” with a well-told story, “you feel inherently as if you are on a train that has a destination.” Your Brain on Story Complement with …

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Posted byChristoph27/04/2014Posted inUncategorizedTags: anecdote, ira glass, life, Lit, queue, quote, story, storytelling, This American Life, writing

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. Colum McCann Zoli. (2007)  (via amandaonwriting)

Posted byChristoph10/01/2014Posted inUncategorizedTags: Colum McCann, life, queue, story, storytelling, zoli

Margaret Atwood on The Blind Assassin – Guardian Book Club

Margaret Atwood described how she approached and drafted The Blind Assassin for the Guardian (link above.) The text really conveys how the right structure turns a good idea into a great story.Margaret Atwood on The Blind Assassin – Guardian Book Club

Posted byChristoph12/08/2013Posted inUncategorizedTags: margaret atwood, story, structure, The Blind Assassin, writing

The story is not in the words; it’s in the struggle.  Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy 

Posted byChristoph02/04/2012Posted inUncategorizedTags: literature, Paul Auster, story, struggle, The New York Trilogy
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