No matter how dry, technical, or complicated your subject matter, these three storytelling tips will breathe life into your words and resonate with people in a compelling and memorable way.
The first ingredient of a good story is to have a relatable character. What makes Mukherjee’s history of cancer so readable is that he makes it all In the first sentence on the first page we encounter Carla Reed, a thirty-three-year-old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, Massachusetts, a mother of three young children, who wakes up in bed one morning with a sort of numbness in her head that instantly tells her something is wrong.
In the case of Carla Reed, Mukherjee relays the story of walking into her hospital room after she was diagnosed: In chapter two, we meet Sidney Farber. Farber would go on to become a pioneer in the treatment for childhood leukemia. But on a December morning in 1947, we find him impatiently waiting for a parcel from New York.. In this moment, we are with him as he finds the package waiting in his laboratory:
Suddenly, we’re as curious as Farber about what the contents of this package will unveil; we experience the parallel feelings of excitement and, perhaps, trepidation.
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