Storytelling by Ira Glass

I found Ira Glass's videos on storytelling to be very interesting. He challenged everything I had been taught about storytelling growing up in school. One thing in particular that stuck out to me was when he said that storytelling in broadcast is not anything at all like what you do in high school. In broadcast, you can't just form a thesis and build off of that. The story has to have momentum. The example story he told about the man who wakes up and gets out of bed was a perfect example of that. He made the point that the actual facts of the story were incredibly boring, but because the story had momentum, it was very intense and interesting.