“The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.” WholeStoriesTodaySpiritHumanityJourneyDangerLessonsCapacitySpeciesCuriosityActiveConfusionImpulseCrucialImmenseEpicEvidentVessel Book:Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World Source: Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World
“What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up the gothic with a coming-of-age narrative. Telling a love story that's also a monster story. Mixing up superhero tropes with your monster tropes. I like category confusion.” StoriesAgeFormMonstersLove StoryConfusionNarrativeComing Of AgeCategoriesSuperheroGothicMixingTropesIncongruity Author:Kelly Link
“The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out.” PeopleKnowsWayShouldWritingEnoughStoriesPerspectiveRight NowConfusionTelling The TruthConventionalConventional WisdomSortingFiguring It Author:Charlie Kaufman
“You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings so deep that you haven't admitted them even to yourself. Your convictions, your confusions, your most passionate dreams will be there whenever you begin a story, so you might as well learn to tap into them.” WellsStoriesDreamMightHavensLongingPassionateConvictionConfusionTheme Author:Marion Dane Bauer