{"id":27506,"date":"2014-04-15T21:04:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T21:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-audience-actually-wants-to-work-for-their\/"},"modified":"2014-04-15T21:04:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T21:04:22","slug":"the-audience-actually-wants-to-work-for-their","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-audience-actually-wants-to-work-for-their\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The audience actually wants to work for their meal. They just don\u2019t want to know that they\u2019re doing that. That\u2019s your job as a storyteller is to hide the fact that you\u2019re making them work for their meal. We\u2019re born problem solvers. We\u2019re compelled to deduce and to deduct because that\u2019s what we do in real life. It\u2019s this well-organized absence of information that draws us in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Pixar filmmaker <strong>Andrew Stanton<\/strong> in an altogether fantastic episode of NPR\u2019s TED Radio Hour exploring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/05\/23\/186301332\/framing-the-story\">what makes a great story<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Complement with more secrets of storytelling from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/21\/vladimir-nabokov-on-storytelling\/\">Vladimir Nabokov<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/14\/how-to-write-with-style-kurt-vonnegut\/\">Kurt Vonnegut<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/20\/neil-gaiman-ghost-stories\/\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>, then see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/03\/paul-zak-kirby-ferguson-storytelling\/\">the neurochemistry of storytelling and the dramatic art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/explore.noodle.org\/\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Well-organized absence of information<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The audience actually wants to work for their meal. They just don\u2019t want to know that they\u2019re doing that. That\u2019s your job as a storyteller is to hide the fact that you\u2019re making them work for their meal. We\u2019re born problem solvers. We\u2019re compelled to deduce and to deduct because that\u2019s what we do in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-79E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}