This post is the first in a new series I’m calling “What I Learned…” For years, I’ve been wrestling with reviews, their utility, why we even write them, who actually cares? That’s why I started approaching reviews not from a place of, “is this good or bad?” but from a place of, “what does this do, and who would find value in what it does?”
I realized what I was doing was putting a piece of storytelling under a microscope and trying to find elements of it that we could take forward with us. I was trying to figure out what I learned.
Ah! Eureka! An approach to talking about popular storytelling that’s both useful and easily accessible!
For writers, the utility is obvious. What can we learn about storytelling from this piece of storytelling?
For readers, though, I think it might be interesting to see how a writer experiences a piece of popular storytelling, so I hope there’s something in it for those types, too.
I’m starting with what I learned from Widow’s Bay, season one, and don’t worry. No spoilers if you haven’t seen it yet. These will always be spoiler free.
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