The Psychology of What Makes a Great Story | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

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“Stories,” Neil Gaiman asserted in his wonderful lecture on what makes stories last, “are genuinely symbiotic organisms that we live with, that allow human beings to advance.” But what is the natural selection of these organisms — what makes the ones that endure fit for survival? What, in other words, makes a great story?


Via Mary Daniels Brown