Author K.F. Zuzulo kicks off my anniversary week with her great blog on story and why it matters. Enjoy a wonderful week of wonderful guest bloggers, blogs and more. Story does matter. It always has. But I’ve recently and repeatedly been reminded of this fact by the familiar tagline for the AMC (American Movie Classics) network—Story Matters. The ads are most frequently linked to promos for Mad Men and its award-winning combination of acting, characters, dialogue, and story. How does story distinguish itself from all those other elements of storytelling, such as description, narrative, grammar, characterization. Isn’t it all those […]