Back in the spring, Layton Payne wrote a blog entry declaring that Visual Storytelling [Is] Now Mainstream. The blogger was specifically referring to visual storytelling in the form of graphic novels, which are undergoing significant growth. But if visual storytelling in graphic novels is growing, it is also growing in … Continue reading
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Story Prompts Derived from Data
In a blog entry back in the spring, Tony Hirst suggested some interesting story prompts that spring from data. For example, map-based journey: “Given a trail, what can you tell about the journey that was taken and what happened on that journey?” Hirst asks. This notion happened to resonate with … Continue reading
Corporate Reticence to Tell Stories, and How a Story Matrix Can Help
Why have I never encountered David Hutchens until recently? I was captivated by his article, Applications of Narrative and Storytelling as an Organizational Discipline; or Why Organizational Communication in the 21st Century May Find its Salvation in Talking Animals, which he initially created for the 10th Anniversary Edition of Outlearning … Continue reading
Free Guide to Journaling Offered
The site Women’s Memoirs is offering a free 22-page book, Journaling Essentials: Everything You Need to Know to Start by Amber Lea Starfire. Here’s what’s in the guide includes: Seven Wonderful Benefits of Journaling: Each benefit comes with an exercise and space to conduct the exercise. The benefits Starfire discusses are: … Continue reading
Personal Branding is Dead?/Long Live Personal Branding
Through a blog post from my colleague Karen Katz, I learned that Mitch Joel had declared personal branding dead. Though his headline was “Personal Branding RIP,” he actually said personal branding as a concept has lost its way — and, as I didn’t realize until later, he made this statement … Continue reading
A Broader Spectrum of Business Novels
I recently recapped the “business novels” I’ve covered here on A Storied Career and then received an e-mail from Omar Adams with a link to 50 All-Time Best Business Novels. I thus realized that perhaps I need to more specifically define the kind of business novel I’ve written about here. … Continue reading
A Passion for Writing? Time Management and Purposeful Living
I recently read of someone’s passion for writing, and it gave me pause. Writing is integral to my existence, but do I have a passion for it? When people ask me what I do, I tell them I’m a writer. I have wanted to be a writer since third grade, … Continue reading
Yet Another Story Formula for Job-Hunting and More (Plus: Transferable Skills Stories)
Every time I come across someone’s suggested story formula, I ask myself whether the structure could be applied in job-search stories. Most of the time, they can, and I’ve written about many of them. Here’s another one posed by Marc Stoiber on MediaPost, along with my italicized comments on how … Continue reading
Many a Truth is Spoken in Fiction
Fiction is not atop my interests here on A Storied Career, but today, I’m dipping into two fiction-based story projects that have implications for storytelling outside fiction. Both of these are also mashups of fiction and social media. Erik Hare has launched a fiction project called Mythnology, which he explains … Continue reading
My Latin-Scholar Story and a Convergence with a Story Icon
When I was preparing to enter high school, my father told me I had to take Latin. His mother had been a Greek and Latin scholar at Wellesley, and later briefly taught these classic languages. I was not enthusiastic about Latin. I wanted to take French. My father and I … Continue reading