Learn now to write
a better story on the next book.
(The Times had
a good story on Rubin earlier this month.)
A good story on the big (or small) screen can challenge our perceptions about current events in a way that no political pundit yelling on cable TV ever could.
Saw some more
good stories on your boss, and your party's candidate for governor being strong defenders of child molestors.
Read our interview with fashion stylist Megan Shaw below alongside this week's
best stories on Independent Fashion Bloggers.
It can get frustrating to watch them edit out some of your best moments (such as persuading teams to do what I wanted), but they certainly tell
the best story on screen regardless.
Celebrate Roald Dahl Day (13th September) with a resource exploring some of the author's
best stories on film.
-LSB-...] Home Visits Yield Hope and Cooperation is from the NEA Priority Schools Campaign, and is a very
good story on teachers making home visits with help from the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project.
Back in June of 2017, NPR ran a feel -
good story on All Things Considered about Ballou's apparent success in getting all 190 of its graduates accepted to at least one college — despite the fact that only 3 % of students at the school had scored proficient or above on reading tests in 2016.
Overall Arizona Sunshine is a great buy for anyone looking to play
a good story on their PSVR.
Arizona Sunshine is a great buy for anyone looking to play
a good story on their PSVR.
There was
some good stories on why people wanted to play Perfect Dark.
A good story on ozone pollution along Colorado's Front Range and the link to oil and gas industry emissions on Colorado Public Radio.
The Huffington Post has
a good story on the launch of our new television ad campaign, with good work by reporter Althia Raj.
Perhaps the downfall of what seemed to be
a good story on SAM came from Feng et al (2010) in Journal of Climate.
Not exact matches
(An executive at Blind told the publication anecdotally that he knows of other startups who are promoting positive
stories on Facebook, calling the tactic «probably the
best form of awareness building, community building, and user acquisition there is.»)
Branding is all about telling a
good story and nonprofits have an edge
on this storytelling tool.
Every week, the company posts a literal
story, usually riffing
on a
well - known children's book or movie.
Dig Deeper: Choosing the Limited Liability Company as Your Corporate Form Case Study: Why an S Corp Might Be the
Better Choice While Turner's
story is a compelling one for a smaller, lifestyle business, the truth is that fast - growing businesses that plan to bring
on investors or share the ownership of the company with employees may need to consider making the switch to an S corp sooner rather than later.
Women, she said, are great marketers, and tend to be
better able to engage potential backers with a powerful
story — something that really resonates
on crowdfunding platforms.
On «
Good Morning Britain,» Morgan said: «To cut a long
story short, we then spent the next year trading funny messages, then she began emailing me the Suits episodes early.»
Chip Wilson, Lulu's founder, built his empire
on a
story about women and yoga and looking really great in clothes that also felt really
good.
Google is up for an Oscar for
Best Animated Short for its virtual reality film Pearl, which released this spring
on its YouTube channel as part of its Spotlight
Stories program.
In addition, Mui reported
on major international
stories, including the Greek financial crisis and Brexit, as
well as national disasters such as the BP oil spill and Hurricane Katrina.
The moral of this
story is, if you're going to tell others — even as an April Fool's joke — what you think the future of your industry might look like, you had
better be sure that your company has a plan already in place, or the joke will be
on you.
Ending your presentation
on a
story — especially if that
story is personal or illustrates how the content presented affects others — is the
best way to conclude.
A similar case to EuropaCorp's «Kursk,» the true
story of a Russian submarine that sank in the Barents Sea in 2000 and killed everyone
on board; though Putin had a significant role in the events, appears in the source material of Robert Moore's
best - seller «A Time to Die,» and even featured in early versions of the screenplay, he's nowhere to be found in the finished film.
It's not that much different than before: pursue the
best opportunities for your brand, whether that's in retail or online, and focus
on your
story and having the
best product.
The reason that
stories work so
well on us is that we are susceptible to getting «swept up» in both their message and in the manner of their telling.
The imagery paints the picture of any
good story, we could say that [Spoilers if you haven't read / seen Lord of the Rings] «Frodo and Sam fight a giant spider,» but Tolkien spends an entire chapter
on the ordeal, taking the time to help the reader visualize the ferocious nature of the enemy and the bravery of our heroes who persevere despite their many weaknesses (doubt, fear, dismay, etc..)
Researchers Melanie Green (of UNC, mentioned above as
well) and Dr. Philip Mazzocco (OSU) conducted research
on that very question, and their results reveal 6 interesting characteristics of persuasive
stories, which we can compare to the earlier study.
There are a million writing blogs that will go
on and
on about how to craft amazing
stories, but is any of that (potentially
good) advice backed up by research?
Well, it is largely determined by the author's ability to keep the «flow» of the
story going and to deliver during pivotal moments, the same way a
good prosecutor may begin to bare down
on a witness that starts to show signs of «cracking».
Memorability also matters as
well, check out this hugely viral
story on Reddit entitled «Today you, tomorrow me.»
Cooper and «60 Minutes» producer Andy Court had worked
on those previous
stories as
well.
Apple is the company that built the greatest comeback
story in business
on the tiny iPod — which did one thing
well and looked great doing it.
The drug may soon find a wider market if it can be shown effective in treating lymphoma and other blood cancers, and the price for those indications may
well be different, based
on their if value
story.
On the weekly show
Better Than Success, host and serial entrepreneur Nicole Purvy shares more than success
stories.
Also, he realized, it would make a
good tale: Maybe one day he'd create a limited - edition bag with leopard print
on the inside, and could tell this
story as a way to explain it.
Had my friend decided instead just to post his experience
on Twitter, the
story might
well have gone viral.
The verities of entrepreneurship (create value, embrace failure, manage growth) are
well known, and so business memoirs live or die
on the strength of their
stories.
The writing is exceptional; the plot constantly twists; the dialog is crisp and clever and never fails to drive the
story forward; Damian Lewis is, as always, great; Paul Giamatti is,
well, he's Paul Giamatti; the moment Wags, played by David Costabile (the ill - fated Gale Boetticher
on Breaking Bad), appears in a scene, you instantly smile with anticipation.
Based
on the
best - selling book from Andy Weir of the same name, the
story follows astronaut Mark Watney (Damon) as he's left behind
on Mars after a storm forces the rest of his crew to head home.
For anyone who wants to read the
best damn feature out there
on this debate — and
on the epic
story of the effort to find a worthy Alzheimer's drug — I recommend this 2015 Fortune classic by my colleague Erika Fry: «Can Biogen Beat The Memory Thief?»
«An experienced insurance professional has seen and heard the horror
stories and can advise new business owners
on how to
best create an affordable and effective risk management strategy.»
Good Morning America's host, Diane Sawyer, discovered Gordon's bread in 1988 while doing a
story for 60 Minutes
on a Minneapolis organization that loaned money to women entrepreneurs, including Gordon.
«We believe investors are
best served by taking the long view
on a multi-year turnaround
story and overlooking the near - term (issues).»
After continually hearing terms like «entrepreneur's widow» as
well as
stories about the overwhelming failure rates for entrepreneurial marriages, Harp chose to write her master's thesis
on «Spousal Satisfaction In Entrepreneurial Couples.»
If your own people are active and willing participants, it's also likely that, in some cases, they've been encouraged by their managers and peers (theoretically within the bounds of reason and
good taste) to create some of this material
on their own in order to «authentically» help to tell your company's
story.