See a photo of Jane, her bio, and Part 1 of this Q&A. Q&A with Jane Freese, Question 2: Q: How did you initially become involved with story/storytelling/narrative? What attracted you to this field? What do you love about it? A: I became involved in story through a storytelling course … Continue reading
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Q&A with a Story Guru: Jane Freese: Emblematic Moments Lend Themselves to Personal Storytelling in Job Interviews
I’m so happy to have a new Q&A to run this week. I believe I encountered Jane Freese during my usual wanderings and research for blog content and was thrilled to find yet another kindred spirit working with storytelling and career/job search. I am most excited to have her join … Continue reading
New Job Interviewing Book Features Chapter on Telling Stories
Eric Kramer, whose specialty is presentation interviews, has just published a huge, comprehensive interviewing book, Active Interviewing. The book offers a full chapter, “Tell Stories That Engage and Persuade.” He notes that stories in interviews should have a plot, theme, and dramatic tension. The listener of a story in a … Continue reading
Describing Storytelling’s Benefits to Business People
I’ve been running excerpts from the first and second parts of storyteller Eric James Wolf’s interview with me. In this excerpt, he asked me how I describe the benefits of storytelling to other people in the business world. My response: I call upon the gurus who evangelized storytelling long before … Continue reading
Stories of Economy, the Sex Trade, Cosmetics, Mortification, and More: Story Collections and Collection Points
Some venues I’ve come across recently that either offer collections of topic-specific stories or serve as collection points for stories — or both: Glamour magazine runs an annual contest to find the best real-life story submission. I’ve read a lot of the past winning stories, and they are quite compelling … Continue reading
Convergence of Thoughts on Storytelling for Internal Communications
Not long ago, Nishwa Ashraf asked readers of The Melcrum Blog if they prefer the communication on the left or the one on the right: The one on the left is obviously a story, while the one on the right is essentially a platitude intended to convey a company value. … Continue reading
U. of Glamorgan Storytelling Center Offers Science-and-Storytelling “Provocations”
I’m not very good at updating the inside pages on this blog, such as my Events page, so I blew it when it came to publicizing a spring symposium on storytelling and science at the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling at the University of Glamorgan in Cardiff, Wales. But … Continue reading
Coming Up in November: National Life Writing Month and NaNoWriMo
I had heard the term NaNoWriMo before last year, but didn’t really know what it meant. Last year, though, my cousin, Alex Lucas, posted a number of status updates/tweets that he was participating in NaNoWriMo, so I got curious enough to look up the term and learn that it means … Continue reading
Story Collections Strive for Social Change, Part 1
Virtually every day, I see examples of storytelling in service of social change. So many examples, in fact, that it takes two postings to cover just the recent ones. Here are some that have caught me eye in recent months: Brooke Dean and Levi Felix, who document their project at … Continue reading
Story-Related iPad Apps
While poking around my iPad, it occurred to me to search Apple’s App Store for apps related to story and storytelling, so I used those two search terms to see what’s out there. This listing isn’t intended to be comprehensive, and I would certainly love to hear of other great … Continue reading