A Good Reminder

Tommy Tomlinson on the core elements of storytelling:

Thanks for having me here today. I want this to be more of a conversation than a speech. I don't need much time for a speech, because today I'm going to teach you everything you need to know about storytelling in five minutes.

But first I want to tell you a little story.

My wife (Alix Felsing, Storyboard's copyeditor) has this uncanny gift for finding the worst possible movie on TV at any given moment. The other night she landed on the SyFy channel, on this movie called Collision Earth.

I'm gonna try to come up with a quick synopsis that does this movie justice.

The event that gets the action going is a solar flare so powerful that it knocks…