What I learnt this week was that to write good content, we have to learn and understand the history of storytelling and that there is a method to good storytelling. Like the “Inverted Pyramid Writing”.
Of course I knew that humans have been telling stories since ancient times, but I think we rarely think about that in our daily lives.
Even printing books is fairly knew if you think about how long humanity exists.
1450 Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press and made books widely available for the common people.
And as mentioned this week, now we have radio, movies and the world wide web with which we can share our stories.
All that happened in the last 100 years. I think sometimes it is hard for us humans to catch up with all of that. Especially with social media and how fast it develops and changes.
Like I mentioned earlier, I had never heard of the “Inverted Pyramid Writing” before.
But when I think about the many articles that I have read, then I can see that the writer used the Pyramid to create good content.
I will keep this in mind and try to do the same for my blog posts.
What did you learn about good storytelling and the history of it? Let me know in the comment section!
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