Since I’m trying to do holiday-themed entries this week, let’s file this one under “Possible gifts that I’m not sure I support.” iTales appears to be a relatively new story site that is slick in appearance. Unlike most (if not all) the story sites I’ve cited in A STORIED CAREER, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Another Perspective on Holiday Time …
I’ve written the last couple of days about various ways of sharing stories (especially family stories) during the holidays. Saturday’s was about eschewing consumerism and instead sharing family stories; yesterday’s was about “digi-scrapping,” which my sister and I have apparently been inadvertently doing with some recent Christmas projects. In the … Continue reading
Digi-Scrapping: Who Knew?
I never cease to come upon new forms of and uses for storytelling. Just discovered a site and blog called We Are Storytellers, which focuses on “digital scrapbooking” or “digi-scrapping,” which I’d never heard of. The illustrations of digi-scrapping pages look as though they are photos of paper scrapbook pages, … Continue reading
Holidays Are a Great Time to Give the Gift of Family Stories
In a column in Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley newspaper, the Statesman-Journal, Jeanine Stice rails against consumerism at the expense of sharing family stories at Christmastime. She notes that she’s met people who … … don’t measure their soul with statistics but instead with real-life stories. So instead of reading statistics and … Continue reading
Seasonal “Wishstories”
Scott Schwertly of ethos3, the company that promotes storytelling in presentations, says he’s “captivated” by Sears’ holiday “Wishstory” campaign. The campaign tells stories (in a very truncated fashion) of how gifts given by parents to children (who, in this campaign, grew up to be celebrities) shaped the celebrated lives of … Continue reading
Wordle as Story Prompt, Interpretive Tool?
Bryan Alexander, whose work on “Storytelling 2.0” I greatly admire and want to blog about soon, commented on how these Wordle word clouds/tag clouds might be used: I’m wondering about tag clouds for storytelling. They seem like assistive tools. visualizing a story, to rethink and interpret writing prompt What else … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: Cynthia Kurtz, Part 4
See Cynthia’s bio, photo, Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, and Part 3. Q&A with Cynthia Kurtz (Question 4): Q: What future aspirations do you personally have for your own story work? What would you like to do in the story world that you haven’t yet done? A: I … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: Cynthia Kurtz, Part 3
See Cynthia’s bio, photo, Part 1 of this Q&A, and Part 2. Q&A with Cynthia Kurtz (Question 3): Q: Are there any current uses of storytelling that repel you or that you feel are inappropriate? A: I’m sad about how much packaged entertainment and crafted messages have changed our world. … Continue reading
What’s Johnny Bunko’s 7th Lesson?
Back in September, I blogged about Daniel Pink’s manga-style quintessential convergence of story and career, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need. As I noted back then, Pink was running a contest at the Johnny Bunko Web site. The premise of the book is that … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: Cynthia Kurtz, Part 2
See Cynthia’s bio, photo, and Part 1 of this Q&A. Q&A with Cynthia Kurtz (Question 2): Q: In the book, you write “I and others have seen from experience that this approach is superior to approaches that don’t respect the integrity of the raw story and end up (whatever their … Continue reading