![]() ![]() JT had just gotten married and he and his wife set out to buy their first piece of furniture together–a new mattress. Here’s an example of a business founding story-the story of mattress seller Tuft and Needle: Business storytelling relies on the same principles of pacing Good storytelling slows down at dramatic moments, then skips through boring events. But writing a second scene like that would be boring. The first scene of password entering was dramatic. In half a sentence, he explains they’ve entered the passwords, and there’s no drama at all. In this scene, Child doesn’t give us much detail. Then they left, and as before we carried the computer up to Nice’s room, and we entered the private information, and the screen opened up with a long list of files and folders. Again, Reacher and Nice have to enter two passwords: ![]() The scene is full of action: She held down a button, she dabbed at it, the cursor started blinking, she typed, she checked, she raised her eyebrows, I nodded, she touched, the check mark appeared.Ī few pages later, there’s a similar scene. The time slows down, but the drama increases. She checked it over, and touched Submit, and the green check mark showed again, and the dialog box rolled away, and was replaced by ranks of thumbnail images.Ĭhild heightens the tension by describing every tiny detail of what’s happening. She dabbed a button that changed the keyboard letters to numbers, and she typed three digits, and a hyphen, and two more digits, and another hyphen, and then four more digits. ![]() She checked it for spelling, A-r-c-h-i-b-a-l-d, and then she looked at me with eyebrows raised, and I nodded a confirmation, and she touched Submit, and there was a pause, and then a green check mark appeared at the end of the typed name, and the dialog box rolled away, and was replaced by a second box that looked just the same. She typed Archibald, nine letters, with a capital A and the rest in lower case. She dabbed it with a fingertip and a cursor started blinking on the line, and a picture of a keyboard came up below it. She held down a button and the screen lit up with a dialog box. Can they do it with the hints they’ve received? This is a matter of life and death.īut first they need to get two passwords right. The “she” in this story is Casey Nice, a partner of Jack Reacher, and together they’re trying to access critical information on a laptop. Child heightens the drama of the story by taking a whole paragraph to describe a few seconds. The example below comes from the book “Personal” by Lee Child. Scenery descriptions can be beautiful and engaging, but if the description isn’t compelling or the sentences jar, readers start yawning. An author takes ample time to describe the scenery. In contrast, a slow-paced story is more atmospheric. It’s subjective.Ī fast-paced story keeps readers on the edge of their seats, eager to know what’s happening. It’s about how fast or slow the time seems to pass. The reader’s experience is not just about the time line in your story-whether your story describes an hour, one day, or three decades. Pace in storytelling is about the reader’s experience of time Scientists may tell us that one minute is one minute, and it’s exactly 60 seconds, or 60,000 milliseconds. An hour felt like a never-ending amount of time. ![]() Time seemed to slow down-as if boredom was stretching each minute. Remember when as a kid, there were days you were bored? You’d like to think a second is a second, an hour is an hour, and one day is one day. Have you ever thought about this strange concept called time? ![]()
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