The final piece of my rollout of recent finds is the largest, my catch-all category of Links to Interdisciplinary Storytelling Resources. This category covers everything that doesn’t fit into the categories of my other inside pages. Now begins the task not only of actually placing this week’s lists on their … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling: Other
How About Some Free Irish Stories?
When I was a preteen, my favorite uncle read aloud Irish fairy tales by James Stephens to me and my cousin at our family’s vacation cottage in Western Massachusetts. I don’t remember anything about the tales themselves, but I recall being enthralled not only by the stories but by Uncle … Continue reading
Don’t Just Warn About Stories; Tell Us How to Make Them Better
I’m intrigued that a TED Talk about stories that is nearly three years old is getting attention. If I had seen any buzz about Tyler Cowen’s presentation about the problems with stories when it was first posted, I would have written about it or certainly seen others write about it. … Continue reading
The Earth Is the Original Nonlinear Storyteller
The Earth is a wonderful storyteller. When we spent our first summer in Eastern Washington, I became absolutely fascinated by the diverse geology of our new locale. We live in an area that, 250 million years ago, was under the Pacific Ocean, though not far from the coastline — at … Continue reading
Connecting Creativity and Storytelling
I’ve been interested in the relationship between creativity and storytelling since I began my experimental foray into crafts this past summer. I further explored the connection in a discussion with Annette Simmons related to her new interest in painting. I was thus recently interested in an interview Michael Margolis did … Continue reading
Newest Resource in the ‘What Is a Story?’ Conversation
My friends Karen Dietz and Lori Silverman have just developed a nice, free resource — a seven-page handout, Narrative Forms and Stories: Narrative Forms Chart, which you can download from here. The question of what is and isn’t a story has been a particularly hot topic among practitioners in the … Continue reading
A Favorite Easter Story
Updating an Easter post from three years ago … “Padre,” the Rev. R. Craig Burlington, our rector at St. George’s Episcopal Church when we lived in Maplewood, NJ, told a wonderful story in his Easter sermon one year. Here it is as best I can remember: During Holy Week, the … Continue reading
Stories of Economy, the Sex Trade, Cosmetics, Mortification, and More: Story Collections and Collection Points
Some venues I’ve come across recently that either offer collections of topic-specific stories or serve as collection points for stories — or both: Glamour magazine runs an annual contest to find the best real-life story submission. I’ve read a lot of the past winning stories, and they are quite compelling … Continue reading
U. of Glamorgan Storytelling Center Offers Science-and-Storytelling “Provocations”
I’m not very good at updating the inside pages on this blog, such as my Events page, so I blew it when it came to publicizing a spring symposium on storytelling and science at the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling at the University of Glamorgan in Cardiff, Wales. But … 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