South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker are storytelling geniuses! I highlight their remarkably simple but effective "but/therefore rule" in every science communication lecture I give.
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Great advice.
Or they just take their experience re-creating Casa Bonita with Eric and Butters!!
So smart.
@luckytran good advice, but I can think of powerful stories that "and then" all the time.
it's a good technique, but not the only technique.
@luckytran Quick, someone send this to Harlan Coben.
(I was watching “Harlan Coben’s Missing You” on Netflix the other day, and it was all “the heroin is missing a lead, and then a lead falls into her lap.” I would cut him some slack and blame the screenwriters if they hadn’t put his name in the title.)
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