Niko LaamanenFounder, Publisher at Konsensus Network

Unlocking the Power of #Storytelling: A #Newspaper Approach to Short #Fiction #podcast

5 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief podcast excerpt, the speakers discuss storytelling formats for short fiction, contrasting a modern, WhatsApp‑style text message narrative with a traditional newspaper‑style presentation. Speaker A argues that framing a story as a newspaper article creates an additional layer of distance, turning the narrative into a story‑within‑a‑story and compelling readers to work harder to unpack the fiction. Speaker B affirms this view, highlighting the added cognitive engagement required by the newspaper approach.

TranscriptAuto-generated · 1 min

You can, you can operate, you can tell us a story in, you know, a bunch of WhatsApp text messages, or you can tell a story as a newspaper as this one is. And yeah, what I like about that is it, it detaches the reader one step further. So you are reading a story within a story really. And—
Absolutely.
Yeah. Like you say, it adds so much thought to what the reader has to do to unpick short fiction.