The Spider and The Mountain copyright Rick Arthur. All rights reserved. Nyra defiantly faces the rising sun in a tale of samurai, science fiction, and horror. Marker sketch on 8.5x11 inch bond paper.
Storytelling is the most powerful method of communication that will ever exist.
We tell stories to make sense of the human condition.
We form complex bonds with family, friends, coworkers, and local communities. Storytelling confirms common beliefs and discovers the edges of what is accepted. Science fiction transforms into science fact. Fantasy mutates into reality. Dreaming sharpens into purpose. We are driven by our desire to see the world as it is and change it into what it could become.
Where we expend our brain power, imagination, and creativity, solutions emerge to problems that we consider from new angles.
We have an unquenchable curiosity and we are explorers in life, always asking, "what if?" We place a high value on liberty, justice, equality, honor, respect, dignity, and the common good.
Storytelling is powerful. We join in. We create. We think. We collaborate. We set sail on our own personal seas of imagination and tell stories that ring true. We give ourselves permission to live and build our dreams. Storytelling binds us together.
American writer Joan Didion is quoted:
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
From master of horror author Stephen King in his book, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft:
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
Literary icon John Steinbeck is quoted:
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
From comic legend Jack Kirby:
"Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So, you were mostly on your own."
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The future belongs to those who tell the stories that shape dreams.
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Rick Arthur, founder
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