Whether we are storytellers, story practitioners, journalers, writers, bloggers, memoirists, or just folks seeking personal growth and self-actualization, we can always use good story prompts for inspiration. Here are three I liked that I came across recently: Tell the story of the most inspiring, influential storyteller you’ve known. This one … Continue reading
Category Archives: Story Prompts
Stories in the Eye of the Beholder
Sometimes when I see art or photography described as great storytelling, I wonder if I’m supposed to see a really obvious story that everyone else sees. More fruitful, I think, is to imagine one’s own story to go with each image. There’s plenty of fodder in two sets of photos … Continue reading
If You Build It, Will They Record Their Stories?
Eric Winick has a dilemma. He wants to help people tell their stories orally through his company, Yarn Audioworks. But he’s having difficulty persuading folks to come forward to record their narratives. “I’m just looking for the best incident-based 10-15 minute stories I can find,” he says. Winick, a full-time … Continue reading
Name Badges Can Offer Story Prompts
Anecdote, the Australian story-based consultancy, offered a neat idea in its latest newsletter — using name badges as story prompts. Suggesting this activity as an icebreaker for folks meeting the first time or that don’t know each other well, Anecdote instructs: Ask everyone to write something interesting or quirky about … Continue reading
A Rich Source for Story Prompts
The Story Ideas Virtuoso is Deb Gallardo. Her site offers story ideas and writing prompts for creative and fiction writers, but many of them can work for brainstorming memoirs or as a foundation for group story-based activities. For example, Gallardo suggests the Innocent Bystander idea in which: You overhear a … Continue reading
A Story-Based Activity Using Online Journalism
This story activity caught my eye because it appeared in the blog The South Jersey Line, and South Jersey is where I grew up. The South Jersey Line is by journalism professor Mark Berkey-Gerard, and it serves as a resource for students enrolled in his Online Journalism I course at … Continue reading
Story Prompts for Transmitting Values
Dr. Paul White recently wrote at length about using stories to transfer values from one family member to another (he wrote the post over the Christmas holidays, suggesting that period as a particularly good time to undertake this values transfer.) Eventually White concludes: An excellent way to share important principles … Continue reading
Flokka: Story Prompts for Entrepreneurial Stories
Flokka, the tagline of which is “Where women in business blog,” encourages women to share their stories. Aliza Pilar Sherman, in an article reprinted from Her Business magazine, tells women readers of having lunch with other women at conference and sharing stories of business woes with another woman at her … Continue reading
Boxing Day Wordle
Happy Boxing Day. Here’s this week’s word cloud/tag cloud Wordle (from Wordle.net) based on the content of A Storied Career.
Wordle as Story Prompt, Interpretive Tool?
Bryan Alexander, whose work on “Storytelling 2.0” I greatly admire and want to blog about soon, commented on how these Wordle word clouds/tag clouds might be used: I’m wondering about tag clouds for storytelling. They seem like assistive tools. visualizing a story, to rethink and interpret writing prompt What else … Continue reading