Stirring Interest If a story doesn’t pose a dramatic question, you’re probably reading a shopping list. Story questions are the narrative equivalent of a sales pitch, the means by which we’re convinced to stick a story out instead of mowing the lawn or something. Story Questions Moment to moment, the most basic is ‘What happens next?’, but for an audience to care enough to ask that, a strong story needs to reel them in with an overarching question or two
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