In the last post, Why Risk is Essential to Storytellers we talked about how much people hate to lose. So we work hard to avoid doing things that can hurt us in any way – physically, emotionally or spiritually. We would rather do things are certain to succeed than risk failure. Think about asking someone…
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Why Risk is Essential to Storytellers
Weak stories lack gravitas. They lack substance. As one limp, dull page blathers into the next, the nothingness drags on exponentially, wasting the reader’s time and the whole miserable experience ends in disappointment and failure for all involved. To avoid this fate, you need to confront risk. Risk as in the possibility of loss. To…