“As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.” PeopleThinkingWantMysteryClaimsMurderConservativeStorytellingClimbingAdoreGreedyAristocracyChristieMurder Mysteries Author:Christopher Bollen
“Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.” LittlesStoriesPleasureBrainMysterySadnessReaderSkillsLongingSticksCornersStorytellingHauntingEvokeMoron Author:Aimee Bender
“If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.” IfsThinkingWould BeStruggleMysteryHugeStorytellingTensionGood Storytelling Author:Scott Cohen
“Part of what makes me love acting so much is, I love the mystery of the universe and the human experience, and storytelling is a great way to perform that, and that is always inspiring to me.” WayHumansUniverseActingMysteryStorytellingHuman Experience Author:Mariana Klaveno
“When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No more than three details. A character's arc? Three beats. A story? Three acts. An act? Three sequences. A plot point culminating in a mystery of a twist? At least three mentions throughout the tale. This is an old rule, and a good one. It's not universal - but it's a good place to start.” WritingWellsPlayCharacterStoriesThreeDoubtMysteryBeatsUniversalDetailsTalesStorytellingPlotTwistsSequenceDescribingArcsGood PlaceWhen In Doubt Author:Chuck Wendig