In today's self-media era, everyone can tell their own stories and speak for themselves.
Many people have taken action on WeChat official account, Douban and Zhihu. They interest readers by telling stories about their love, marriage and workplace or those around them. We like to listen to other people's stories. First, we are curious. Second, I hope to see my own shadow in other people's stories and find that I am not alone. Some people have contact with me and have similar interests. The third is to get inspiration and thinking.
As Mai Cheng Hui, the author of Telling a Wonderful Story: Seven Key Steps to Acquire Story Skills, said, every story is like a path to understand the world, which helps us get rid of confusion, satisfy our curiosity and give us some life suggestions.
Mai Chenghui's own experience is also a wonderful story. He graduated from Taiwan Province Provincial University. After studying in America, he dropped out of school and went to Hong Kong. He lives the life of an ordinary wage earner in TV stations, film companies and newspapers. Unwilling to be mediocre and wanting to change his destiny, he made his first fortune by selling movies. His story was even made into a feature film by tvbi and played in prime time.
In the book, Mai Cheng Hui tells how he used story-telling skills to promote those films that didn't sell well, and achieved success. Later, he served as editor-in-chief and was even hired as a visiting professor by Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Mai Cheng Hui is the managing director of Hong Kong Crown Publishing House. This book is a summary of his experience as a guest lecturer in storytelling at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Many students have personally verified that Professor Mai Chenghui's story skills are very effective.
Writers, screenwriters, advertising copywriters and teachers are telling one wonderful story after another every day. So is it necessary for people in other industries to learn storytelling besides film and television advertising and cultural education? The answer is yes, because people are naturally fond of listening to stories. You who can tell stories will have unique advantages in expressing, lobbying, selling, receiving and disseminating information, which will make people look at you with new eyes and opportunities may follow.
The connotation that "storytelling" can express often exceeds all kinds of concepts and symbols that logical language can explain.
Learn to tell stories, and we will get unexpected benefits in our work and social relations.
The story is a window that shows us the infinite possibilities of life. Virtual stories can affect real life. In fact, there are many virtual stories in real life.
There must be a storyteller.
There should be something worth turning into a story.
Have the ability to tell stories.
There is information about this story.
Personality needs shock and change.
Six personality development prototypes:
Naive: Simply believe in justice and kindness in the world.
Orphan: The dark side of the world surrounds me.
Wanderer: in a contradictory psychological state, unable to get rid of it, looking around at a loss and exploring the surroundings.
Soldier: Find your own direction and push forward.
Martyr: In order to achieve the goal of a higher stage, I do not hesitate to sacrifice my personal likes and dislikes and what I cherished most at the beginning, even my life.
Magician: Mastered the ability to change reality and surpass ordinary people.
There are five necessary plot stages: expectation stage, fantasy stage, frustration stage, nightmare stage and decisive ending.
Seven basic plots: defeating the devil, starting from scratch, exploring, leaving and returning, comedy, tragedy and rebirth.
First-person perspective, omniscient perspective and third-person perspective
Picturesque narration can describe things in a unconstrained style;
A play is like a performance. Although there are certain time and space constraints, its proximity can make the story vivid and full of strength.
Dialogue, like drums, is the internal interaction between characters.
Start by practicing telling my story.