A webinar last week, billed as the bonus 33rd session of The Reinvention Summit: Virtual Summit on the Future of Storytelling, became the launchpad for a story journey that will take place over the next five weeks or so. The journey takes the form of three more webinars for summit participants at the Producer’s Pass level. The journey will be to create a “Bio: Based on a True Story,” and will consist of mapping your plot points, finding the through-line arc, and, and packaging the story for social media.

If you are not already signed up to take this journey yourself, I invite you to follow my journey, which I’ll describe periodically in this space. I will also report on the journeys of others taking this trip.

As background, I’m experimenting with presenting highlights from last week’s launchpad webinar on a separate page of this blog. The summary consists of screenshots of most of the slides organizer Michael Margolis presented, along with my notes (which turn out to be kind of meager).

One thing I’ll report on in this space: At one point in the session, Michael asked the 50 or so participants to write in the chat box the things that really jazzed and excited them (“What do you get geeked out on?” was the question). The responses were a lot of fun; here’s a partial list of them:

Imagining characters/personalities for ordinary objects, like trashcans or doorsteps; moonstones and Celtic traditional music; following hashtags; science fiction and fantasy stories; iPad; World Cafe process; news junkie; gourmet cooking; trees; turtles; the relation of British history/culture to western North Carolina history and University of North Carolina basketball; being part of social change helping people improve their lives; groups with open communication; local clean energy; curves and angles of new perspective as sometimes captured in photographs; spirals; woodturning pens and bowls; meaningful conversation, especially late night over drinks; Maya Angelou, Margaret Mead; funny and creative people; deep and soulful people; empty books to write in; slow Sunday dinners with family and friends; wine, chocolate and a deep conversation; books and reading, web-surfing, architecture buildings and urban design; music that resonates with my soul, that gives me musicgasms; the evolution of new marketing; idea generation and starting things; music that is funky, regardless of genre; Jackson Browne — the poet of rock; Bob Dylan — the beatnik of rock; raising my daughter … as an active participant in the evolution of culture and economy.