"“But” – you may say – “I don’t even know my story yet.” My answer is: “Of course you don’t know your..."

““But” – you may say – “I don’t even know my story yet.” My answer is: “Of course you don’t know your story yet.” You are the very first person to tell this story ever, anywhere in the whole world, and you cannot know a story until it has been told. First you tell it; then you know it. It is not the other way around. That may sound illogical, but to the narrating mind, it is logic itself. Stories make themselves known, they reveal themselves – even to their tellers – only by being told. You may ask how on earth you can tell a story before you know it. You do that  by letting the emerging story tell itself through you. As you tell it, you let the story give you your cues about where it is going to go next.”

- Stephen Koch

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