Basic Storytelling & Story Collecting
Storytelling is as simple as a, b, c. Just three parts: To start with, you need to choose a story. Then, you need to get it inside you somehow. Finally, you need to get it out again, into someone else....
View ArticleBeginning Storytelling Part 1: Pick your story
The important part in story-choosing is to read long enough to know the difference between the story that grabs you, some people say it begs to be told, and the story that repulses you. There should,...
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Storytelling Resources for Kids
Today I’m participating in the Ultimate Blog Swap. You’ll find me posting over at Oak Bay Drive about Living my Dream. Dream-life is not what I expected, but then, I didn’t know what to expect. At the...
View ArticleStory Beyond the Chase
Feeling chatty today? I’m feeling chatty. Ruth, over at Booktalk & More, recently started a discussion about the novel heroine Marguerite, where she pointed out our culture’s obsession with the...
View Article7-minute Trailer for Part-1 of The Hobbit
First of all, I think this idea is delightful– taking all the clips released so far and putting them in chronological order. Second, I just figured out they’re releasing it in three movies (not two as...
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CW’s Beauty and the Beast– a review of sorts
So I think I really understand for the first time this “good writing vs. good storytelling” dichotomy. And I think this has to be an intensely personal thing, like your favorite salad, or something....
View ArticleSpeaking Practice #1: Start as You Mean to Go On
I gave my first speech at Toastmasters today. Posting here at UT will probably be limited to speech-topics and/or the speeches themselves while I push through this speaking track. (There are 10...
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Three Story Elements
I have the unfortunate habit of shooting myself in the foot sometimes, intellectually speaking. I devalue something because it’s too easy, but can’t complete something else because it’s too hard. So...
View ArticleThe Convergence of Expertise
It started out badly enough: a journalism background muddying the waters of my novel-creating. My scrupulosity — the need to cite/confirm/reality-check everything — was getting in the way of just...
View ArticleConvergence (continued.)
It is still my biggest challenge in storytelling that I cannot select the *perfect* words for a given tale and be done with my work on it. The work is the continual internalization of the story...
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