I’d really like to read a book titled “seeing like a storyteller.” How do you walk around with an eye open for story fodder? Like Douglas Adam’s’ biscuits story. How do you sensitize yourself to this kind of dramatic potential in milder instances? https://t.co/eRTOjePI3F
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) January 9, 2021
Some one suggested Maps of Meaning by Jordan peterson.
Another Henry James Notebooks
I attended a Melody Owen story tellign workshop. I liekd how she started with a timeline and showed how to pick some highlights for each of an independent story line. She shared examples of the elements of the story. Knowing your why, Story Shift, Tension Makes the story are some of her upcoming workshops with fee. She has written books The Devil's Daughter on farm life. She also runs a large meetup of Vancouver Storytellers.
In Elementary school, during recess we would catch dragonflies. Since it was only few rooms, it was easy to go outside and play with nature and be back soon into the class. As the school building gets bigger, kids get cut off from nature unless care is taken to preseve the green areas for their interaction. There is the PT ground but that is all just sand or hard ground. Later in college, sky lawns with greenery and a pond around was a welcome break from stressful studies. Think back to all the times you studied and the surroundings you had and their impact on you. Two years before college, I was in a hostel that comprised o two buildings. You can imagine how that kind of stifled life can make a person indifferent. It was fun studying but some interaction or third space as it is called helps. And here even a second would have helped. The dichotomy of attention and distraction during the formative years of a human. After college, I saw a bit of myself J M Coetzee's story of being an engineer in a place he didnt know much.
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