“#Storytelling is the greatest technology that humans have ever created.”

#Jon_Westenberg

People like to listen to #stories, because they identify themselves with the #characters in the story. They also identify others, those they love and those they don’t, their #friends, #neighbors and #family.  “Adam the butcher, looks like #Mighty_Mouse”, “#Mini_Mouse acts like Aunty Lisa”.

#Pixar explains that we as the audience admire a character for trying more than for their success.

It is about the character’s journey more than it is about their actual destination.

Why should you #tell this story? What does it #teach?

That’s the heart of #storytelling.

By crafting a story that you are passionate to tell because it serves a real #purpose, your stories will have bigger impact on the #world. It will teach the audience something.

People learn from good attitudes described in a story, and they appreciate the rewarded good #behaviors as much as they cheer up with the just results of wrong doings, (chastisements).

Sometimes, characters outside the story live inside a #good_story and feel what the characters in the story feel.

Psychologists generally agree that there are six basic #emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and #surprise. In all these we are affected by the story, so we get disappointed when someone is offended with dishonorable #reactions, tremble when danger is at hand, rejoice with #happy_events, grief on the sad, and surprised after $suspensions.

#Jesus was a good #storyteller. All #writers admit that “The #prodigal_son” parable was the best story ever told. It touches all sides of human life, while describing: The generous father, the elder rejecting son, the youngest prodigal, the servants at the father’s house, the far village, the #prostitutes and #bad_companions, the wrong way of living, the pig farmer, the #desire of eating even the pig’s lunch, the distress of a lost person, the turning back of oneself, the serious #decision_maker, the love of a passionate father, which exhibits the love of #God to a penitent humankind.

Story telling could be done in several methods: written, oral and visual through a series of #strip_pictures or #motion_pictures.

Whatever #media we use, if the story is not interesting and attractive, it will not be recommended, and the author might lose reputation.

Otherwise, the good story will #promise it’s audience for more following stories from the #teller.

The #dangerous part of storytelling is when you write about a true story and include some #fiction, mainly #historical_fiction. Of course it is mostly dangerous when you present a historical true story, which includes #doctrines and #teachings, like the #Bible for example, and present it with some fictions or details from human #imagination or assumptions. What is the measure you use to justify what you have written or narrated?

The purpose justifies what you are doing, if the purpose is to clarify what might have happened, then of course you have to explain what you think was happening and was not mentioned in the #Scriptures.

So, the purpose of telling the story justifies the way it is presented and the content to explain what made things happen.