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课程主页: https://www.udemy.com/course/brilliant_beginnings/
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课程名称：讲故事的卓越开篇 概述：欢迎加入我探索卓越开篇艺术与技巧的旅程。在故事讲述中，开篇的文字旨在吸引读者进入故事的幻想世界。一个卓越的开篇应能够： - 对故事的种类做出承诺（期待感） - 在读者心中激发未解的问题（好奇心） - 包含能够引发读者情感与好奇心的有力字词 - 邀请读者跨越门槛，进入故事的世界 作为读者，当你被故事讲述者的开头所吸引时，发生了什么？人类的肾上腺素系统使我们在面对新事物时会迅速做出判断。这种本能的脑功能不断扫描新鲜、意外和未解释的事物，无论是新电影、新小说，还是突然出现的危险。故事讲述者的读者会在最初的印象、开头的话语和呈现方式上进行评判，因此，第一句话要引人入胜、令人信服，并且与故事的其他部分保持真实的一致性，否则读者会感到失望。 作为故事讲述者，我们有几乎无限的优秀导师。如果你正在写自己喜欢的故事，那么学习那些让你充满期待的书籍作者的写作风格将会大有裨益。我和我的一些多篇出版作品的作家朋友组成了一个小型的写作小组，我们每年会聚会几次，专注于讲故事的艺术与技巧。在一次聚会上，我们决定分析我们喜爱的书籍的开篇并将结果发布到我们的博客上，这一过程已经持续了16年。 在这门课程中，借助于我的朋友们，我们将一起分享我们对卓越开篇的探索。让我们像好奇的狗一样，仔细观察我们要研究的那些开头的文字、句子和段落，寻找能够唤起心中图像、脑中问题和心中情感的有力字词。让我们一起享受这个有趣的旅程吧。 — Vanessa Grant
I invite you to join me on a journey of discovery, exploring the art and craft of brilliant beginnings in storytelling. Storytellers write these opening words to draw readers across the threshold into the imaginary world of the story.For the reader, a brilliant beginning should…Make a promise about what kind of story this is (anticipation)Stir unanswered questions in the reader's mind (curiousity)Contain powerful words that appeal to the reader's emotions and curiousity, andInvite the reader to cross the threshold into the story world Think about what happens to you as a reader, when you get hooked by the storyteller's first few words? When we-as humans-encounter something new, our limbic system's "watchdog"-the amygdala-is designed to give us first impressions. In the same way a dog perpetually sniffs the ground, this instinctive brain function is constantly on the lookout, scanning for the new, the unexpected, the unexplained. Whether it's a new movie, a new novel, or the appearance of a sabre-toothed tiger in our territory, our brains are hardwired to make snap judgments. It's a survival skill. If you're a storyteller, readers will judge your novel, your magazine article, your public speech on that first impression, those opening words and the way they're presented. You want those first words to be intriguing, compelling-and authentically consistent with the rest of your story. Because if you don't follow through on the rest of your story, your readers are going to be disappointed.As storytellers, we have a virtually unlimited number of talented mentors. If you're writing the kind of stories you yourself would like to read, then you can't do better than to study the authors of those books that fill you with anticipation with that first word … first sentence … first page. I belong to a small writers group of multi-published authors called the pen warriors. 3 to 4 times a year we meet for weekend retreats to focus on the art and craft of storytelling. We've been meeting for 16 years! During one of those retreats we decided that we would each analyze the beginning of a book we loved, and post it on our blog. After we finished our first round, we decided to do it again. And then a third time.Thanks to my fellow Pen Warriors, Bonnie Edwards, E. C. Sheedy, Laura Tobias, and Gail Whitiker, these analyses are now available as part of this course. I invite you to join our journey, to share our exploration of brilliant beginnings. Remember the role the reader's amygdala plays in getting the reader to cross that threshold into the story world. I invite you, like a curious dog, to sniff the ground around those first words, sentences, and paragraphs in the beginnings we'll study. Look for powerful words and phrases that evoke images in your mind, questions in your brain, and emotions in your heart, words that stir the need to know more, the urge to shut out the world and turn the page, crossing the threshold into the magic of story. Let's have some fun together.Vanessa Grant
