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If you want to change your life, find your story–the one that makes your heart sing, the one you cannot live without. Your goals will naturally align to that focus. To stick with your goals when it would be easier to fall back into old habits, tell yourself your story to remember why what you’re doing matters. How it’s changing your life. How it’s changing you. 
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You’ve heard the old adage: A picture is worth a thousand words. In PR, this saying still rings true when it comes to storytelling. Visual assets can make your message memorable, bring complex data to life and draw more attention to the most important parts of your story, as we explained in our post about infographics last year. Plus, more and more outlets are looking for visual aids to enhance stories.
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Born said she aspires to bring history to life with narratives built around robust characters. With proper research and a strong narrative, history becomes about people rather than dates, she said.
Born did not recognize storytelling as her calling until she joined the Champaign-Urbana Storytelling Guild, according to her website. She quickly began developing her prairie woman character and has since interwoven the narrative of her life with that of Lincoln and the Civil War for various events across the state. European folk tales have been an inspiration for Born; to her, folk tales have a way of teaching culture and values while remaining engaging for the listener.
“You know, if I don’t keep telling you, why, people will forget”
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Freshmen at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts spent the past semester playing an immersive card game, Reality. Participants collected cards hidden across campus that were used as prompts for collaborative storytelling projects.
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If you’ve been calling yourself a storyteller for a long time, is that label still serving you? Is it still opening doors for you, calling you to accept new challenges, to expand your image of who you are? Or has the vista you once glimpsed through the door called “storytelling” turned into a tunnel with no clear outlet? Has it begun to limit your growth instead of enabling it?
Are you continuing the process that brought you to storytelling? If not, is it time to resume your journey of evolution? Are there new doorways waiting for you to notice them?
Read more on: rising to new challenges, openings that beckon to storytellers, no limits, and the trick is ...
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At its simplest, a multimedia story combines different elements that complement one another to make the story more interesting, complete or compelling.
Multimedia storytelling often refers to a blurring of boundaries between media online: newspapers and magazines post video, radio stations post graphics and text, TV outlets offering text along with video and maps. Reporters are no longer bound by their medium, but can draw on the strength of all to tell a better story.
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We’re going to talk about storytelling. With us are Stewart Quealy moderating speakers Joshua Palau, Dana Todd, and Brian Lewis. Via Kathy Hansen
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Personal writing needs good story-telling. When you write your personal story make sure it really is personal then focus on what the story is, why you’re telling it and what reaction you want.
Storytellers need to remember these personal writing tips and include them in every single story, whether we’re telling it orally, or writing it to share on our blogs or elsewhere.
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Humans are storytelling creatures. Whenever someone says, “that reminds me of a story…” we prick up our ears and settle in to listen. Two recent Scientific American articles, The Secrets of Storytelling and Fiction Hones Social Skills shed new light on the intricacies and importance of storytelling. The first article, by Jeremy Hsu on the secrets of storytelling, hones in on why our human brains seem to be particularly well wired for both telling and hearing stories. The second article dispels the myth that avid readers are isolated bookworms, out of touch with their social world.
Also discussed: Story Corps, Ira Glass, the Periodic Table of Storytelling, digital and transmedia storytelling.
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Telling Your Story. Life is a string of moments pieced together to tell a story. Some moments string together easily while others don't quite fit the other pieces well and we are forced to make them fit. We must adjust our story with each new moment as new perspective emerges.
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Becky Higgins gives ideas for documenting daily life using photos.
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For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling.
In journalism writing classes, students learn: “Show, don’t tell.” When we provide a visual, that maxim carries even more weight. The less text or audio that an image needs to be understood, the better it is.
Some photojournalists think it’s best to let photos stand alone. Some like to publish their portfolios with no captions at all. This is a pet peeve of mine: I want to know more. I always want to know who, when, and where. Always! For me this is part of authentication, which is part of what makes it journalism and not interpretive art. A photo without a caption is not journalism.
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Another blogger inspired me to create an A-Z list of highlights of story finds for the year. Strictly speaking, not all of these are finds. Some are my own creations or initiatives. Others are practitioners I’ve highlighted in the past who’ve been resurgent in the last year. Still others are simply tributes. But they represent some of the most notable content about applied storytelling from 2011.
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Visual storytelling. A professional food stylist and photographer offers tips for taking photos of food.
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These principles apply to all storytelling, not exclusively to non-profits. However, as many of us are involved with non-profit groups, this is priceless information for making the organization come to life through good storytelling. You can use these tips to draft a story for your favorite non-profit in your journal. As a nonprofit, one of the ways you raise funds and attract attention to your cause is through the art of storytelling. Whether you recount the history of your organization to a donor, the life of someone you've helped in a grant proposal, or the challenges you face in a letter to supporters, storytelling is an everyday aspect of nonprofit life.
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[a great list of resources... and not just for teachers & students]
There are many great websites that provide opportunities for students to develop language skills, tell stories, and share back their knowledge in fun, creative, and meaningful ways each using a computer. There are also terrific websites and portals which have links to excellent online interactives which can be used in the classroom with an interactive whiteboard. Below are links and short descriptions of these sites.
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Yes, great storytellers are great writers. They understand narrative structure, setting, how to grab attention, how to humanize and build tension and ultimately, how to bring it all full circle or provide a call to action. In our digital world, great storytellers possess the technical skills to build and manage a blog, shoot photos, record audio, create good videos and maximize use of our favorite social media channels.
That aside, stories first need to be discovered and explored. Great stories also typically require time to evolve and develop in order to properly match a storyteller’s vision. So what’s the super secret to drumming up a great story?
Take a walk and explore.
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Despite our proudest cultural and medical advances, mental illness remains largely taboo, partly because the experience of it can be so challenging to articulate. But when performance artist Bobby Baker was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in 1996, followed by a breast cancer diagnosis, she set out to capture her experience and her journey to recovery in 711 drawings that would serve as her private catharsis over the course of more than a decade. In Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me, Baker makes, at long last, this private experience public through 158 drawings and watercolors — poignant, honest, funny, moving, shocking — spanning 11 years of mental, physical, and emotional healing, a journey Marina Warner aptly calls in the preface a “chronicle of a life repaired.” The book is at once a personal journal and a tenacious thesaurus that helps translate the misunderstood realities of mental illness into an expressive and intuitive visual language the rest of the world can understand, reminiscent of the wonderful Drawing Autism.
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As we continue into the New Year, and start the JOURNALING Journey (it IS a journey….one or two pages rarely help.) I thought I’d share my thoughts on how I generally journal. It’s very hard sometimes to pull a topic out of your mind, or be able to process your thoughts on paper, and to be totally honest, we love to ignore what or who we really are. It’s easy to sit down and write about how lovely your life is, how perfect your children are or how much in love with your spouse you are. Truth? NO. If you do that, you are writing TO the people who will one day find this journal, instead of writing from your true self. There is no person out there who has a TRUTHFUL journal like that. Be true to yourself, and you will find yourself with a clearer mind, and more realistic goals and the tools that you need to improve your life. Via Kathy Hansen
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Stories bypass the judgmental, intellectualizing prefrontal lobes of the brain, the source of our conscious decision-making, and tap directly into the older and more primitive limbic areas of the brain, where often unconscious visceral choice and attachment originate.
In my 18 years of facilitating story workshops among every possible population, including groups that were in extreme conflict, I've seen the transformational results that happen when minds are in sync. And I have come to be able to identify the exact moment when it happens. There's a palpable shift and softening in energy, a quiet and stillness settles over the group, or the couple, or the person across from me, which I've learned to accept as enrapt attention, full Presence -- in creative terms, Flow.
This article demonstrates how story reaches beneath the thinking mind to the feeling one, from one inner life to another inner life, where we are all human beings together standing on the common ground of life. Included are 7 steps on how to develop a Connector story.
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There is to many places, people and creatures on Earth we've got to see. Some of us can't do that for some reasons, but we all have a chance to see the most amazing things. All is possible because there is a people who live to catch the unique moments of life on our planet. The photographers live and love their job. They try to understand people who stay in front of the lens. Everyone everywhere have his own story…amazing and pure. Some of us don't want to share that stories but sometimes we do that unknowingly. I try to found some amazing shots from all over the world and to think about the story behind the pictures. I don't know anything about the story of these photos but I know what I'm feeling and I'll be happy if you find something for you. Use your imagination, feelings and thoughts and you will see different stories of our life.
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The Transmedia LA Wiki is a current, cool place to glom onto useful tools, techniques and hard-won insights to help wend our way thru the labyrinth of Transmedia Project Creation. The wiki serves to spread around what works/ doesn’t work for transmedia storytelling via an open dialogue. Transmedia production in particular requires a specialized brand of Know How, so open discussion/ dialogue covering the good/ not so good techniques will hopefully stymie much ‘re-invention of the wheel’.
Here’s the type of resources awaiting on the other end of the Transmedia LA Wiki: gaming, publishing, social media, technology, transmedia, and writing.
The Transmedia LA Wiki: http://transmediala.pbworks.com
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One of my favorite activities with my children is telling bedtime stories. It’s a fun time for us to connect and use our imaginations together. It’s also a way to help my children build their own storytelling skills.
If you’re new to bedtime story telling, I’ve got some tricks to help keep your stories on track and make them interactive by giving your kids the opportunity to tell them with you.
My background is in improv comedy where I made up a lot of stories on the spot. One of the tools I’ve used to teach storytelling to improv students is the Story Spine and it works great for bedtime stories. The Story Spine was created by Kenn Adams in his book How to Improvise a Full Length Play.
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For over 30 years, Sharing the Fire has been helping people from all walks of life implement the art and craft of storytelling into their personal and professional life. On March 16, 2012, Sharing the Fire will make its New York debut bringing hundreds of people from New York State, New England and beyond into Albany for three days of learning, sharing and networking with performances and workshops presented by storytelling professionals. This conference is open to everyone.
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