Lisa Rossetti is developing a female leadership development and coaching program and will soon launch the Web site Q2Lead. I offered to publicize her research needs: As a writer and narrative researcher, I am collecting conversations and stories from women who are Leaders in their own Life. Women often do … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling: Other
Three Storytelling Applications Attest to Applied Storytelling’s Diversity
Here are three ways that folks are applying storytelling in creative, innovative ways: PSST! is a collaborative film project of 17 brilliantly produced films by 51 teams of designers, directors, animators and composers. Every film is comprised of three sections — beginning, middle and end — each produced by three … Continue reading
Taking Nominations for Outstanding Storytelling in Print (Yet Accessible Online)
My quest to respond to the challenge of reader Raf Stevens for examples of superlative storytelling has been rewarding because it has exposed me to some great storytelling, as well as gotten me thinking about a taxonomy of the kind of storytelling that’s available on the Web. In my last … Continue reading
Does Public Expectation for Dramatic Story Arcs Spark Balloon-Boy Media Frenzies?
A blog entry I read by Derek Sivers describes a talk he once attended by the late Kurt Vonnegut in which the author detailed common story arcs. Vonnegut compared Cinderalla stories, common disaster stories, and real life, as seen in the illustrations at the bottom of this entry — from … Continue reading
With More Storytelling, Maybe Diagnoses Wouldn’t Be Such a Mystery
One of my favorite guilty pleasures is the TV show “Mystery Diagnosis” on Discovery Health. The true stories in the shows follow a pretty standard format. The patient starts out normally, but somewhere along the way, a weird symptom emerges, usually followed by more bizarre symptoms. Sometimes a seemingly irrelevant … Continue reading
Storytelling and Haiku
sit in a circle gather your friends around you listen to stories My Facebook friend Kim Pearson (pictured), who has written one haiku a day for 20-some years, runs a haiku contest every Friday on a particular theme. Today’s theme is storytelling. Check it out.
Winning Entry Says More about Cell Phones than Toilets
I mentioned a few weeks ago, a “Tell Us Your Best Toilet Story” contest from American Standard. The winning entry, submitted by Emily Horos of Atlanta GA, has now been chosen. Here’s the beginning of it: It Works As a Phone, Too I lived in a house with two female … Continue reading
Should Storytelling Be a Required 21st-Century Skill?
On her Langwitches Blog recently, Silvia Tolisano wrote, “I am intrigued and fascinated by the resurrection and increase in The Need for Storytelling Skills in the 21st century.” In turn, she cited an earlier entry in which she had invoked the likes of Daniel Pink and Jason Ohler in arguing … Continue reading
Another Hunch Bites the Dust — But Stories Still Rule
My intuition that The Help by Kathryn Stockett would be Oprah’s next book-club selection did not pan out, but at least her pick features stories: Say You’re One of Them is a collection of short stories by Uwem Akpan about the plight of children in modern-day Africa.
Can We Both Honor Victims’ Stories and Note Post-9/11 Cultural Shift?
Today, as promised, I’m responding to Cathryn Wellner’s response to my 9/11 blog entry about how that tragic day contributed to a societal need to connect through stories. I will first respond to what Cathryn found most disturbing about my post — my failure to acknowledge the terrible price at … Continue reading