link those knowns to the unknown
19th July 2016 | for Creatives | writing, reaching your audience, storytelling, Don Fry |
"To explain things clearly, you connect the unknown to what your audience already knows. Stories draw on common human knowledge and experience, and link those knowns to the unknown, or the old to the new."
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