Today begins a rollout of finds that will eventually land on my inside pages (even as I place on inside pages the finds I listed last July). Today’s list belongs to the category Links to Storytelling Platforms, Prompts, and Tools This article, A Plethora of Writing Prompts for Creative Writing … Continue reading
Category Archives: Story Prompts
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
Story Prompts Meet Social Media
I’ve seen plenty of Web sites that offer story prompts. In fact, I keep intending to create a Story Prompts section on A Storied Career. But Plinky is the first story-prompt site I’ve seen that combines story prompts with social media. In fact, Plinky doesn’t frame its prompts as prompts … Continue reading
Following Up on Some Recent Entries
Sometimes commenters to this blog share information that readers probably would like to know about but might miss because comments are a bit obscure on this blog. Others e-mail me with share-worthy information. Here are a few morsels about recent entries: Barbara Ann Kipfer, author of 4,000 Questions For Getting … Continue reading
Consider 2-5-1 Storytelling for Your Personal Year-End Review
Robert A. Swanwick recently reported on a storytelling framework that works well for gaining knowledge while evaluating projects. He learned of the framework from a presentation by Nancy Dixon, who in turn, learned of it from Lt Col Karuna Ramanathan. With 2009 ending in a few days, it occurred to … Continue reading
Holiday Shopping as Storytelling Fodder
This weekend, the last before Christmas, is bound to be a big one for holiday shopping. My newspaper said the crowds will be “outrageous,” which I find a little hard to swallow given the economy. The blogger at Thoughts While Waiting suggests that holiday shopping provides an opportunity for storytelling. … Continue reading
Story Prompts, Activities for All Occasions: Part 2
Continuing a list of story prompts and activities begun in yesterday’s entry: The next prompt requires some herculean thinking and work, as well as knowledge of transmedia storytelling. It comes from a blog entry for a class called Theories of Texts and Technology taught by Blake Scott. (The entry is … Continue reading
Story Prompts Offer Versatile Applications: Part 1
I love collecting story prompts and activities because they have applications across the spectrum of the kinds of things I explore here, on A Storied Career. Organizational practitioners can use them as warmups/icebreakers or to get at deeper objectives. Memoirists and journalers can use them to get their creative juices … Continue reading
Waiting in Line? Try Cultivating Stories
I’m belatedly reading one of the classics of the storytelling world (especially personal storytelling), Storycatcher by fellow Washington resident Christina Baldwin. Early in the book, she tells this tale: Attending a conference in California not long ago, I found myself standing in a line waiting to buy fancy coffee. One … Continue reading
Please Be Seated for “Best Toilet Story”
[Thanks to Thaler Pekar for alerting me to this one.] Did you know that toilets get Tweeted about on Twitter nearly 750 times weekly? I have bad dreams about this sort of thing, but the “Tell Us Your Best Toilet Story” contest from American Standard is the chance to win … Continue reading