Freed From Behind The Paywall: What is a Story – and What is it For?
How Story Saves Us From Chaos - An Extended Post
First published as a paid post December 2022.
'A story is like a magnet dragged through randomness pulling the chaos of things into some kind of shape and - if we're lucky - into some kind of sense. Every tale is an attempt to lasso a terrifying reality and bring it to heel' - John Yorke.
Stories are the sea in which humans swim. A written, acted or film…
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