Have you ever noticed that the most memorable moments in a film are the ones not shown or told?

Recently I've been deep-diving into a model of brain, mind, and behavior—active inference and the free energy principle—developed by a leading neuroscientist and computational psychiatrist Karl ...

If humans were fish, our water would be narratives. We never experience reality unmediated. Light and sound filter through our senses and we impose meaning and order, building our familiar perceptual ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Vibhas Ratanjee studies leadership and culture at Gallup On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most ...

Show, don’t tell. It’s probably the most overused phrase in the storyteller’s caboodle, but that’s probably because it’s true. There is nothing more tedious than an expository slog in the opening act ...

Most people know George Lucas as the writer-director of the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as a producer of many films and series that make up the franchise’s extended universe. In recent years, ...

“All great literature can be reduced to two stories: a man goes on a journey, and a stranger comes to town.” This axiom, most often attributed to Leo Tolstoy, speaks to the power of the stories we ...

Jessica completed her undergraduate degree in English Literature at Durham University and is now a Writer for Game Rant. Her final year undergraduate dissertation was about demonstrations of choice ...

Fortnite​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ is not only recognized as a battle royale giant or a creative hotspot for streamers, but it turns out to be a narrative-driven game as well. If the story were enough to ...