I’d really like to read a book titled “seeing like a storyteller.” How do you walk around with an eye open for story fodder? Like Douglas Adam’s’ biscuits story. How do you sensitize yourself to this kind of dramatic potential in milder instances?https://www.google.com/amp/s/theoldvillage.wordpress.com/2004/01/28/douglas-adams-shares-a-true-story/amp/ …
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Also, it's not dramatic potential. It's learning to see things in terms of literary form and expression, like an artist learns to see when she draws. This involves a truly staggering amount of work, over and above the writing. Henry James' Notebooks are the de facto standard.
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You may find Vandermeer's Wonderbook of interest as well. Far more introductory, but also much more suited to genre fiction. In terms of handling incident literarily, though, watching James think on paper is an extraordinary education.
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