Stories are models of life.

But that’s not very helpful, is it? So let me go further.

Stories model life - the actions that happen in life. They are a sequence of events, modeled.

But they’re not actually about the events. We think they are, but they’re not.

Stories are about the relationships between actions.

We want to know why. Why did something happen? How can we make something happen. How can we make it happen to us?