Victoria Storytellers Guild

Friday, June 25, 2010

Stories Are Serious Business






   In 2004, retired research scientist and Storyteller Kendall Haven proclaimed to senior officials at NASA's Goddard Space flight Centre that stories are an information delivery system powerhouse that are evolutionarily hardwired into human brains. When challenged to prove it. Haven interwove research from 16 different fields of science to show that story structure is how we humans think! In his book STORY PROOF: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Storyhe defines eight essential elements that define effective story structure.
   

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