A great tip from Elmore Leonard to tell more compelling stories.

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Storytelling is rather simple if you follow this advice

from writer Elmore Leonard.

He said that a story is real life with the boring parts left out.

Simple, right?

Just leave out all the boring parts and voilà, your story is ready.

But what, if you can’t leave out the boring parts.

Because, let's say, it's a really dry topic with lots of

facts or statistics or laws.

It sounds like bad luck, doesn't it?

I mean, you can’t just leave the facts out when it's about the facts, do you?

You're basically doing two big giving a boring talk.

Well, unless the premise is wrong which I believe it is.

Facts are facts.

In and of itself, a fact is neither boring nor exciting, but.

If the facts relate to our lives, if the facts have an impact on our

lives, even if it's just an impact on your business's bottom line,

then we're back in Leonard's domain.

Leave out the boring parts, i.e.

those facts that don't relate to the point we're trying to make about our lives.

Facts make for a boring story, if, and only if you write

real life out of the story.

And if you waste your time on the facts without making

the connection to real life.