The Beemgee podcast on the craft of developing stories focuses on the emotional response of the audience to the story. Instead of the Hero’s Journey, we concentrate on “The Audience’ Journey” – how authors guide their audience through a story world by manipulating emotions. This is the essential guide to story development for all authors of fiction or memoirs, for screenwriters, game designers, dramatists and dramaturgs, editors and publishers, producers and directors.
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episode 8: Episode 8 – Why We Tell Stories
Fiction as Life-Simulation.
Brain patterns while we are immersed in a story.
Storytelling as an evolutionary adaptation.
Binge-watching our favourite series actually helps us to survive.
The Dao of storytelling – story-practice makes life-perfect.
Safety in numbers.
The three ways characters can interact.
Problem-solving.
Works cited:
Brian Boyd, On The Origin of Stories, Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (2009, Harvard University Press)
Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal, How Stories Make Us Human (2012, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)