![]() ![]() ![]() In one study, subjects “watched” stories as they were being related by casting their eyes upward when events occurred above the line of horizon, and “when they heard ‘downward’ stories, that’s where their eyes went too.” Tracking saccades when stories land on a person is one thing, but there are fundamental observations that storytellers have long known: Character is more important than plot, for instance, and, as Storr puts it, “every story you’ll ever hear amounts to ‘something changed.’ ” A skillful storyteller will then build the promise of change close to the beginning, as with E.B. One is that the creator of a story builds a model world that readers then colonize and rebuild. British novelist and science journalist Storr ( Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us, 2018, etc.) peels back the neuroscience of what makes stories work.Ī good story- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, say, or Dracula-operates on rules that its makers may have internalized but may not be able to enumerate. ![]()
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