{"id":172,"date":"2021-01-17T14:48:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T14:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2021-01-17T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T14:50:35","slug":"how-to-tell-a-compelling-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"How to tell a compelling story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;Storytelling is about taking the puzzle pieces of narrative and arranging them so they have meaning.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had the opportunity to film a super fun how-to video at Concordia University using their new Learning Glass Studio. Thanks to IITS Technician Johnny O&#8217;neil for filming, editing and providing general production and technical support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I offered up five things to keep in mind if you want your stories to resonate with your audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to tell a story by Taylor Tower\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H6238zXMNUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Works Cited: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Your Brain on Fiction by Annie Murphy Paul (The New York Times, March 17, 2012) <\/li><li>Kurt Vonnegut in The Paris Review, 1977 <\/li><li>Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Storytelling is about taking the puzzle pieces of narrative and arranging them so they have meaning.&#8221; Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction I had the opportunity to film a super fun how-to video at Concordia University using their new Learning Glass Studio&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,35],"tags":[50,49,32],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technique","category-writing","tag-concordia-university","tag-how-to","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}