Narratives
Tell me a story. When did you first make that plea? You don’t remember. You mother may. Your brain is built to work with stories. Recall a few movies or TV episodes you have recently watched. Do you wish you could recall stuff from your textbooks as thoroughly?
Maybe you can. Most things you have to study have stories in them. The stories may be right there in the text. Or they may be waiting for you to find them. If you see a story, you will know how to use it. If you don’t see a story, you may want to know how to find it.
Story signs. Your quest for a story starts with a search for story signs.
If you used the Explore-a-Chapter Clipit, you may have left some trail marks on the story parts.
Otherwise, here are some story signs.
Do you see an event? Is there something about time?
Is something happening?
Do you see several steps?
If you talk concretely about any of these things, you are going to tell a story.
Story telling. To talk concretely, use the standard methods of journalism and fiction. Focus on one instance. One person, one family, one group, one molecule, one blood cell, one dinosaur, one fish.
Set a scene you can see in your head. Make the scene look as familiar as you can. Make it a scene you can move through in your imagination.
Since you are studying, you will notice important points that you may want to remember later. Put things in your story that emphasize those points.
Run the story in your head a few times. As you would if you were going to make a documentary about it. Not only will you learn about the story, you'll get better at planning documentaries in your head. In case you run into story signs somewhere else.
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Feelings
If you have a story, you may want to put some feeling into it.
Audio
Make audio versions of your story.
Related Strengths
Adventurous
Concretizer
Creative
Curious
Goal Oriented
Imagery, Good
Imaginative
Humor, Sense of
Writer, Good