The Future of Storytelling rests on your ability to time travel. When you develop your stories, you are on a parallel emotional journey with the characters in your stories, the same journey the audience will experience. But how do you register this? Being aware of...
The storytelling center for social impact is inside of you. Change and transformation begins with an inner shift of self-perception and by asking: What if you’re not who you think you are? The emotional resonance between you, your characters and your audience is an...
Raymond Chandler wrote great mystery novels like The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely. He also wrote screenplays like “Double Indemnity” and “Strangers on a Train”. Chandler once said, “If you’re telling your story to someone and noticing that you’re losing their...
My life changed in the summer of 1969 after seeing “Midnight Cowboy” at a downtown Chicago theater, compelling storytelling at it’s best. When I stepped outside the theater, I was in a lucid, bodily-felt altered state – an altered state that was triggered every time I...
“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.” W. C. Fields We laugh when we witness comic characters being humiliated in a public or social situation. In this clip from “A Fish Called Wanda” we’ll see how this happens to Archie (John Cleese) while he’s doing a...
