Life in Story Space

The fundamental unit of human experience is the story.

How's that for bottom line up front? I've been obsessed with stories all my life, but since reading (repeatedly) Robert McKee's "Story", I've been thinking about stories in different ways. For me it laid out a way of looking at stories, built from their fundamental building blocks. It provided a framework for de-constructing stories, or creating new stories, that seemed to make sense to me on some deeper level.

Since then I've started to see stories everywhere, and I now believe there are profound lessons that can be learned from this approach. All of our memories of the past and dreams of the future are stories we are writing about ourselves. If a human being is alive, they are making stories. So to understand stories is to understand how humans see themselves and their place in the world.

So this blog will be about Life in Story Space. I will be looking at how story logic can be used as a framework for different kinds of problems, and hopefully providing some insights on a wide range of topics. I hope the content here gives you a unique way of looking at the world, and at the power of stories.