All stories teach a lesson of some sort. Some lessons are very obvious and simple: Tell the truth. Kindness is best. True beauty comes from within. But what makes these morals resonate in a story? Why do they come off as maudlin and sappy in some stories and profound and deep in others?
Hosts Timothy Deal and Nick Hayden examine the difference between simple and simplistic morals. How does a story help its moral sink deep into the reader or viewer? They attempt to find out.
Then, after another Once Upon a Scene, Tim and Nick play a game of What If?, where they try to infuse flawed stories with new, overused morals.
So, listen it to this 143rd episode of your premiere podcast on storytelling for the creator and the consumer, Derailed Trains of Thought. Remember–A podcast heard is a podcast learned.