Matthew Dicks: Storytellers must highlight their own foolish mistakes, not hide them
Matthew Dicks · Matthew Dicks: The Storytelling Expert · Sep 3, 2024 · at 1:06:55
Storyteller Matthew Dicks discusses permissible narrative edits, arguing that vulnerability and personal failure should never be edited out of a story.
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“If I did something stupid over the course of the story, I'm not going to remove the stupid thing I did in an effort to make myself look better. In fact, I will enhance the stupid thing I did, because I know that's what audiences really want. You know, that vulnerability is what they crave.”
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