Wordle as Story Prompt, Interpretive Tool?

Bryan Alexander, whose work on “Storytelling 2.0” I greatly admire and want to blog about soon, commented on how these Wordle word clouds/tag clouds might be used:

I’m wondering about tag clouds for storytelling. They seem like assistive tools.

  • visualizing a story, to rethink and interpret

  • writing prompt

What else can we do with these?

Great question! I guess that’s why I run them every week. They seem valuable for something. If nothing else, I like the idea of some sort of visual representation of the weekly content of A Storied Career. Here’s this week’s: