This week’s word cloud/tag cloud from Wordle.net based on the past week’s content of A Storied Career:
Monthly Archives: October 2008
The Storytelling Bug: Roots in Childhood?
In a lovely post with beautiful photos (they look hand-tinted), “Dara,” who describes herself as “a twenty-something year old Christian and an aspiring historical fiction writer,” posed some interesting questions: Do you remember what age you started to read? What were some of your favorite books as a child? Were … Continue reading
Change the World: Rate Rakontu, A Community Story Tool, by Nov. 1
My virtual friend, Cynthia Kurtz (about whom I’ve blogged here and here and who will be the subject of a Q&A in December), is heading a team that prepared a grant application directed at the Knight News Challenge for a project to develop open-source software to support community storytelling. Says … Continue reading
Why Tell a Rape Story?
I was raped when I was college age on the streets of the city in which I first went to college. I have written about that experience a couple of times in the years since. Why tell such a personal story? In the case of Alice Sebold, author of the … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: David Vanadia
I am so pleased to present the twelfth installment in this series of interviews with some of the gurus of both performance and applied storytelling. This interview is with David Vanadia, whom I came across in an interesting way. Last fall, I sought resumes that I could make-over, fictionalize, … Continue reading
Seeking Financial Meltdown Stories for Job Action Day, Nov. 3
A Storied Career seeks your story of the current financial meltdown and how it has affected you. We seek both stories about negative effects on your job/career and positive stories about how you are being proactive regarding your job or career in the face of the current climate. I’ll publish … Continue reading
Sustainability Stories
OK, I admit that, although I care about the environment, it’s not one of my pet issues. As with any issue, however, passions can be aroused and change effected about the environment and sustainability through storytelling. And storytelling, I’m passionate about, especially its ability to promulgate change. Thus, I greatly … Continue reading
The Story of My Process
Not long ago, Terrence Gargiulo complimented me on all the care I put into sleuthing out items for A Storied Career. My dirty little secret is that it’s not difficult at all to find material. I never cease to be astonished at all the material that continues to emerge on … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: Madelyn Blair, Part 5
See Madelyn’s bio, photo, and Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. Q&A with Madelyn Blair (Questions 9, 10, and 11): Q: On your Pelerei Web site and also in your chapter in Wake Me When the Data’s Over, you discuss the “future story.” What … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: Madelyn Blair, Part 4
See Madelyn’s bio, photo, and Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, and Part 3. Q&A with Madelyn Blair (Questions 6, 7, and 8): Q: What’s your favorite story about a transformation that came about through a story or storytelling act? A: I wrote a paper on this called “Renewable … Continue reading