Cathryn Wellner wrote to me this weekend with a response to my 9/11 blog entry. With her permission, I wanted to post her response as a comment to that entry, but my comment function seems to be malfunctioning, so Cathryn gave me permission to post her words as today’s entry. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling: Other
We Will Always Tell the Stories of this Tragic Day
In my teleseminar this week, I talked about 9-11 and the post-9-11 culture as one of the pivotal influences in society’s need to connect through stories. Back in February, I read a blog entry about the popular storytelling venue The Moth. The blogger, my Twitter friend Will Coley, wrote: “[People] … Continue reading
Venues Collect and Share Stories for Myriad Purposes
Want to hear stories about Utah? Read inspiring sports stories? Is there a kind of story that can’t be shared on the Web? Hard to imagine there is when you see plentiful sites that specialize in every imaginable kind of story. Some offer very open and accessible channels for contributing; … Continue reading
A Dozen Eye-Openers about Telling Stories in Presentations
This year’s SlideShare “Tell a Story” contest underscored the emergence of of storytelling as a significant component in presentations (even if slide shows aren’t always compatible with good storytelling). (I had thought the “Tell a Story” contest replaced the more generic contest SlideShare held last year but just learned the … Continue reading
Chain of Confidence Story Contest Ends Soon
The Chain of Confidence Challenge is a Tupperware-sponsored contest seeking “your unique story about a special person who has made a significant difference in your life; perhaps a mentor, a teacher, your sister or your best friend. What did you learn from them and how were you encouraged and inspired … Continue reading
What Is Storymapping?
I’ve mentioned storymapping before but am now seeing enough new material on the subject that a definition seems in order. The blog Emerging Upstate Arts Professionals describes what storymapping, a project of The Center for Digital Storytelling, is: Essentially, “storymapping” is a method of reclaiming the dialogue and character of … Continue reading
Storytelling: Key to Our Species’ Survival
Why did homo sapiens survive while Neanderthals didn’t? Thriller novelist Lee Child wrote not long ago that it was because homo sapiens developed language. “But then something strange happened,” Child wrote. “We invented fiction. We started talking about things that hadn’t happened to people that didn’t exist.” Speculating, based on … Continue reading
Story Collections Address Diverse Needs
Here are some interesting sites I’ve come across recently that offer story collections. Some solicit stories from the public. Fear.less collects stories about people who have overcome heir fears. From the site: “fear.less is a movement borne from our right to live without fear. It’s where human potential meets the … Continue reading
The Story of Kettle Falls
2020 Update: This post refers to Kettle Falls as my “half-year” home, but after being here about a month, my now-ex-husband and I decided we missed nothing about Florida and made Kettle Falls our year-round home. The humorous Kettle Falls sign shown at the bottom of the post, has been … Continue reading
Survey Says: We’re Not in the Golden Age of Storytelling
Got much faster response to my one-question survey query this time around, and not a single spammer yet. A critical mass of four responses is what I aim for before publishing results; however, I think I’ll leave the current survey up for a while to see if others want to … Continue reading