Storytelling that moves and lands. A visual breakdown of the arc behind memorable stories: tension, turning point, transformation. Communication meets craft.
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No more content without shape. Storytelling needs arcs

ByJohanna

Motion isn’t meaning. Shape is. Things are moving. Your business is pivoting. Your content is being posted. Your strategy is shifting, launching, optimizing, reacting. But is it moving in a way that matters? Motion without shape isn’t strategy. It’s just noise with good branding. The difference between a marketing machine that builds trust and one…

Halftone collage False, Truth information. Authors lie concept and how it applies to ethical, story-driven marketing
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Authors lie. So do storytellers, but the good ones tell you why

ByJohanna

Every story is a choice, but most storyteller’s don’t admin they’re making one. The question is: what are you choosing to reveal and what are you leaving out? Let’s begin with the lie. Not the one where you invent clients out of thin air. Not the dramatic glow-up story with three filters and business class…

An image of a cybernetic eye as a metaphor for subconscious influence in modern marketing.
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Marketing is mind control, and you’re already under the spell

ByJohanna

You think you make choices. You think you pick your coffee. Your laptop. Your shoes.You think you scroll, browse, click, and buy of your own free will. You don’t. Marketing did. Not the buy now, act fast, final sale pushy kind. The real kind. The kind you don’t see coming. The kind that whispers instead…

A man reading a book. Over the man's head all various storytelling genres, that should also be used in marketing to inform the brand story, tone of voice, and visuals.
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Genres aren’t just for books. How to choose your brand’s narrative style

ByJohanna

Your brand might not be a hero’s/heroine’s journey. It might be a slow-burn mystery, a cheeky romance, a survival tale… Once you know your genre, everything (voice, visuals, story arc) starts to make sense. Your brand has a genre This might sound strange at first. Genre? Isn’t that a bookshelf decision? A category label slapped…