See a photo of Lisa, her bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. Q&A with Lisa Cron, Questions 9, 10, and 11: Q: The storytelling movement seems to be growing explosively. Why now? What is it about this moment in human history and culture … Continue reading
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Q and A with a Story Guru: Lisa Cron: Who Makes Story Mistakes? Writers and Democrats
See a photo of Lisa, her bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, and Part 3. Q&A with Lisa Cron, Questions 7 and 8: Q: You have read many stories from your days in publishing and in the entertainment industry. Presumably you saw plenty of examples during this past … Continue reading
Q and A with a Story Guru: Lisa Cron: Most Definitions of Story Are Too Vague, General
See a photo of Lisa, her bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, and Part 2. Q&A with Lisa Cron, Questions 5 and 6: Q: You define story as “how what happens affects someone who is trying to achieve a difficult goal, and how they change as a result.” How important … Continue reading
Q and A with a Story Guru: Lisa Cron: Nonnegotiable Hardwired Expectations for Story
See a photo of Lisa, her bio, and Part 1 of this Q&A. Q&A with Lisa Cron, Questions 3 and 4: Q: What people or entities have been most influential to you in your story work and why? A: There have been two major influences in my work. The first … Continue reading
Q and A with a Story Guru: Lisa Cron: Writers and Storytellers Are the World’s Most Powerful People
Q and A No. 99! Who will be No. 100? As we wait for the 100th practitioner to be revealed and the revised compilation of Q&As to be assembled, I’m thrilled to present a Q&A with Lisa Cron. Lisa approached me about her book, Wired for Story, releasing the week … Continue reading
Cover for Story-Practitioner Compilation Update Revealed
As I’ve noted previously, I plan a complete revision of my Storied Careers: 40+ Story Practitioners Talk about Applied Storytelling ebook when I hit 100 Q and As. Given that No. 99 appears this week, No, 100 should not be far off. The updated book will be retitled 100 Storied … Continue reading
How Storied Memory Makes Us Like — and Different from — Other Animals: Story + Memory, Part 3
Wrapping up my series on story and memory with two last bits of research. As with Part 2 of the series, Stephanie West Allen was probably the source of these items: Autobiographical memory is a uniquely human form of memory. So assert Researchers Robyn Fivusha, Tilmann Habermas, Theodore E.A. Waters, … Continue reading
We Fill in Memory Gaps with Stories: Story + Memory, Part 2
Around the same time I started pondering the role of story in memory, as I discussed in Part 1, Stephanie West Allen, who frequently shares her fascinating finds from the story world, was sending me numerous links about memory research and its connection to story and storytelling. She’s the source … Continue reading
Story: An Aid to Memory or Memory Itself? Story + Memory, Part 1
As a student of story, I’ve long known that information conveyed in story form is more memorable than other forms. But I got especially interested in the relationship between story and memory when I read Joshua Safran Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein, about Foer’s year of training himself to compete in … Continue reading
How Storytelling Is (Or Should Be) the Centerpiece of PR
Guest Post by Rachel DiCaro Metscher What a special delight to present today’s guest blog post. The guest blogger, Rachel DiCaro Metscher (pictured), was my student at least a dozen years ago. After we recently reconnected on Facebook, I saw an interview with her (embedded below) in which she talked … Continue reading