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I bet I’m not the only one who thought of Spiderman when reading chapter 9 of The Story Factor. It pretty much had the same message, “With power comes great responsibility.”
I felt almost like this chapter was put in by the lawyers. You know, so no one can sue if they get hurt. Simmons tends to get a little preachy, but has a good message. Use this power of influencing people through stories only for good, not evil. I am sure there are those out there abusing their power of influence, even outside of politics.
The rest of the chapter seemed like a catch-all of ideas left over from other chapters. But here they are categorized as the “rules” of proper narrative with “dos” and “don’ts” of storytelling. While I thought she had more don’ts than dos, they actually were pretty even. But it’s the negative ones that we tend to remember. Still several good ideas come through in the chapter, ones that as storytellers, we all can utilize.