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Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling: We’re storytelling animals

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The Science of Story Telling

A story is a theory about how the world works. Everyone's got l these different definitions and story. The one i use, and which is so slightly unusual, i am the ice of kent that i came upon ias right ing, the science of story telling. So let's take a fictional story for example. Now, what you're usually seeing in a fictional story ideas aboutHow the world works being tested by characters. And if it's a happy ending, they end up with the right idea about how theworld works. If it's noti it's proof, it's proof that this idea doesn't work. Sos, so that's how that works in fiction.

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