Notes tagged “Narrative drive”

2022

• Nov 13
  How Orson Scott Card’s MICE quotient maps to internal and external genres of narrative drive Story theorists commonly apply the MICE quotient to story structure, but elements from the framework apply to the core conflicts behind action-, revelation-, and character-based plots.

  5 min
• Aug 11
  The interest-effort formula for engaging story audiences When engaging with stories, audiences experience a push and pull between effort and interest. Storytellers can tune this balance to control the types of experiences they create.

  8 min
• Apr 15
  Expectation, the knowledge instinct, and peak experience Stories hook into our reward systems, leveraging our brains’ built-in mechanisms for learning in order to create anticipation and narrative drive.

  12 min