{"id":287,"date":"2013-05-28T07:18:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2013-05-28T07:18:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:18:59","slug":"50-sure-firse-storytelling-tricks-trick-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/50-sure-firse-storytelling-tricks-trick-1\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Sure-Fire Storytelling Tricks (Trick 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Excerpted from the book, 50 Sure-First Storytelling Tricks<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

Trick \u00a01<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Building Size (<\/b>Changing Scope)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This first technique holds audience interest by revealing the true size of something over the course of the story until it can be seen to be either larger or smaller than it originally appeared. This makes things appear to grow or diminish as the story unfolds.<\/p>\n

Conspiracy stories are usually good examples of increasing scope, as only the tip of the iceberg first comes to light and the full extent is ultimately much bigger. The motion picture\u00a0All The President\u2019s Men\u00a0illustrates this nicely. Stories about things being less extensive than they originally appear are not unlike\u00a0The Wizard Of Oz\u00a0in which a seemingly huge network of power turns out to be just one man behind a curtain.<\/p>\n

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(Excerpted from the book, 50 Sure-First Storytelling Tricks) Trick \u00a01 Building Size (Changing Scope) This first technique holds audience interest by revealing the true size of something over the course of the story until it can be seen to be either larger or smaller than it originally appeared. This makes things appear to grow or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytelling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36xpN-4D","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}