Adventures in Storytelling
a blog
Periodically Julie writes blog posts about the connections of storytelling and life. Sometimes there will be prompts to help you write a piece of your own story. Remember, we are the authors of our own stories. No one else can tell them for us.
This is an update/revision of a blog I wrote back in 2012. In the Beginning In the spring of 1969 as I filled out applications for teaching jobs, a difficult question for an eager young teacher-to-be to answer, “Where do you see yourself in ten years?” needed a special answer. I loved my student…
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Researching Personal Stories Researching Personal Stories, say what? Don’t you just tell what happened? Well, you can, but it’s not going to be the best story you’ve ever told. Researching a personal story can be a fun and surprisingly interesting experience. For years I refused to tell personal stories because I thought my life was…
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Stories can be long meandering works of prose. Details, of course, make the story interesting, bring it to life. But how do you find a story’s bones, the core of its being? Take, for instance, the Scottish folktale of Janet and Tam Lin. It’s a story I fell in love with the first time I…
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