Category Archives: Storytelling: Other

Here’s this week’s Wordle.net word/tag cloud based on A Storied Career. Delayed because of technical difficulties on my road trip.

This week’s word/tag cloud based on A Storied Career. I am heading west on a month-long cross-country excursion today. Regular postings will continue perhaps sprinkled with some stories from the road.

This week’s word cloud/tag cloud based on the week’s entries in A Storied Career:

Collective Storytelling is a blog that serves as a repository class assignments for an unnamed class at NYU (maybe the class is titled, Collective Storytelling?). The blog tantalizes with brief descriptions of the assignments, and the assignments themselves — but without very detailed explanations of the assignments. One posted idea … Continue reading →

There’s a storytelling convention in TV and movie scriptwriting that I really don’t like. If a dog — or a cat or horse, but most often a dog — is introduced into the plot, there is a better than 50-50 chance that the animal will die as part of the … Continue reading →

In the blog The Mythology of Humanity, “jessaslade” recently mused about the purpose of storytelling and listed: To achieve immortality, of deeds and for the storyteller To explain otherwise senseless phenomena To entertain/educate To moralize/terrify To beta test new versions of reality To exorcise* the imagination To land a movie … Continue reading →

In 1991, my mother came to visit my family in Tallahassee. The first words out of her mouth were, “Elly had her baby!” An outside observer might have thought she was talking about a mutual family friend or a relative. But she was talking about Elly Patterson, protagonist and centerpiece … Continue reading →

Here’s this week’s A Storied Career word/tag cloud from Wordle.net:

 My mother’s side of my family has long been tantalized by the mystery of what became of my great-grandfather, Walter Scott Fenimore, who disappeared after leaving for work in Beverly, NJ, without a trace in September of 1913, leaving my great-grandmother, Katharine Hathaway Fenimore, after whom I am named, and … Continue reading →

Here’s this week’s A Storied Career word/tag cloud from Wordle.net, produced during Tropical Storm Fay after four straight days of rain: