Category Archives: Storytelling: Other

Volumes could be written about story in advertising, but two relatively new taglines seem to acknowledge a new understanding of the importance of story in our lives: Pier 1: Every house tells a story. Levi’s: A style for every story.

Rob Kall has a nice collection of quotations about story on his Storycon site. Here are a few of my favorites: “The universe is made of stories, not atoms.” — Muriel Rukeyser, poet “There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.” — Maya Angelou, American poet … Continue reading →

Several entries ago, I reported the discovery of Jill Walker’s site documenting the explorations of her PhD program. I’ve now found several more and have realized that they, along with mine, describe the narrative arc of our PhD programs, or at least portions of our programs. My blog attempts to … Continue reading →

I’m teaching an entrepreneurial seminar to college students starting next month. I’ve taught this class once before, but this time I plan to completely revamp it and take a storytelling approach to it. The class lends itself perfectly to storytelling because it is speaker-driven — each entrepreneurial speaker tells his … Continue reading →

Ah, I think I’ve found a blogish kind of Web page that is somewhat analogous to the exploration of story/narrative I’m trying to conduct with this blog. In 2004, Jill Walker started researching distributed narratives. She uses this page to track her progress on the project. Her paper, Distributed Narrative: … Continue reading →

“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not.” — Isabel Allende Courtesy of my partner, Randall. And Isabel Allende, of course.