Story Lab: Week 6 - Creative Style

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  • Boundless freedom isn't helpful, you need restrictions to be creative = creative restraints
  • Solutions must recognize limitations in order to innovate, like how to reach a goal when you know this specific thing needs work
  • Joseph Campbell wrote about the hero's journey, a cycle every storybook hero goes through to complete her tasks and save the day. not every story hits all the points, but generally follows that pattern
  • The order of the journey, same for Harry Potter to Odysseus
    • call to adventure - hero starts off in their town, then leaves
    • assistance - some figure helps the hero with advice or training
    • departure - hero leaves for the mission
    • trials - slaying monsters, challenges
    • approach - face the biggest monster 
    • crisis - hero is dead or almost dead, but reborn
    • treasure - hero wins and gets a power
    • result - does hero succeed or not
    • return - goes back to home life
    • new life - how the hero has changed
    • resolution - how everything gets straightened out
    • status quo - things are normal again but different
  • fictional worlds need a set of rules, just like real life, a world isn't complete unless it has restrictions
  • you have to think about relationships between families, plants, animals, technology, transportation, communication when you create a fictional place
  • 1984 depicts a pretty rough picture of society, and originated the term Orwellian to describe authoritarian and dictator-like societies
  • Franz Kafka was an insurance clerk who wrote weird stories
  • something Kafkaesque is irony of characters, tragicomic stories, and absurdity between power and individuals caught up in it. 
  • zombie nouns - nominalization, big fancy words that make a sentence harder to read because it strips away verbs and subjects
  • in order to make your writing readable and enjoyable, take away nominalizations and instead use real normal nouns, concrete verbs, and clear structure.
  • we are creatures of rhythm and repetition, so that's why we like songs so much
  • poetry is just rhythm and repetition, making it easy to read because of its flow







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