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Story structure

Story structure

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Story structure

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- Stories do have a structure, or at least, good stories do. Now, one way to think about that is to study the different parts of a story, like the context, the conflict and the resolution. But instead of that, I think a more practical way to wrap your mind around story structure is to understand the eight questions that your training story needs to answer and the order in which you need to answer them. So, here are the eight questions. And the first question you need to answer is: Why should I listen to this story? Because if you don't answer that question in the first 10 or 15 seconds, your audience might not listen. They might mentally, physically or emotionally walk away from your story. And you do that by just saying something like: "Yeah, that's a problem. "Let me tell you what I did five years ago "when I had your job, and I ran into that same problem." Then they know that they're about to hear a story that's…

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