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Here’s the quickest storytelling tip we’ve ever found. It comes from the creators of ‘South Park,’ Trey Parker and Matt Stone have a method Trey uses when he’s stuck on his weekly scripts.
Take the beats of the story—which are basically the beats of your outline . And when the words “and then” come between those beats, you’re basically you’ve got a boring story.
Instead, what should happen between every beat that you’ve written down is either the word ‘therefore,’ or ‘but.’
Anytime you tell a story, and you find yourself saying “and then,” “and then,” “and then,” — replace all the “and then’s” with either “but” or “therefore.”
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Here’s the quickest storytelling tip we’ve ever found. It comes from the creators of ‘South Park,’ Trey Parker and Matt Stone have a method Trey uses when he’s stuck on his weekly scripts.
Take the beats of the story—which are basically the beats of your outline . And when the words “and then” come between those beats, you’re basically you’ve got a boring story.
Instead, what should happen between every beat that you’ve written down is either the word ‘therefore,’ or ‘but.’
Anytime you tell a story, and you find yourself saying “and then,” “and then,” “and then,” — replace all the “and then’s” with either “but” or “therefore.”