Resources

Storytelling & Narrative

Resources for deciding which stories are worth telling, which need more work, and which should stay on the shelf.

The story got approved. Will anyone actually care?

A pitch meeting can approve a story for reasons that have nothing to do with whether an audience will respond to it. It was safe, it was someone's project, or it was simply the idea nobody objected to. Here is the five-dimension framework for telling the difference between a story that got approved and a story that will actually work.