The secret ingredient to telling a good story

If you understand people — and you understand people by engaging with them — and you understand storytelling (and the fact that storytelling is supposed to entertain those people, and NOT than be a copy of a copy of a copy of another story, like a blurry, shitty jpg that’s been saved and compressed through fifty different meme websites), and you build a story in this way, you’ll… well, if you’re new, you’ll probably still write a lot of bad stories, but that’s normal, in the same way you can’t lift seven hundred pounds your first day in the gym. What I’ve done is give you some tips on diet and exercise routines. Ultimately, just like working out, how you tell a story is still going to need to be tailored to you, and there’s only one you.