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Why we write stories that fascinate us

Why we write stories that fascinate us

In the following YouTube video to which I will send you shortly, I write about why stories fascinate us all our lives. As children, we love to listen to bedtime stories. As we grow older, we tell our own stories about what happened at school or at our after-school job. As adults, we often speak in stories and consume stories in the form of novels, movies, TV dramas, and conversations at the grocery store as we wait in line.

What is the meaning of telling (and listening to) all of these stories? Obviously, stories entertain us, but our need to be entertained doesn’t fully explain our great hunger for stories. A more satisfying explanation of the power stories hold for us is that they provide rehearsals for life: they furnish us with the reassurance and the guidance we need to become adults who live full, happy lives.

In this YouTube post, I go more in-depth as to why we write stories—in short, why we write memoirs.

Why we write stories

why we write stories

Please check out The Memoir Channel for more useful videos on writing a better memoir.

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