Tag: Storytelling

Use the Editor’s Note to Tell Your Paper’s Story

“Story Time” by Dave Parker. Creative Commons Attribution.

Curators show who they are by exposing what they care about, what they consider worthy of other people’s attention. We use stories as currency in the attention economy: picking the best of them and passing them along.We manage a platform of stories. Yet, it seems we’re not storytellers ourselves. Or when we are, we separate… Continue reading Use the Editor’s Note to Tell Your Paper’s Story

Storytelling lessons from “A Song of Ice And Fire”

Detail from “Der Grossvater erzählt eine Geschichte” (oil on canvas), Albert Anke, 1884.

Late as I’ve come to George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice And Fire” book series, I can’t put the books down now. They’re well-written and engaging. Engagement is — of course — the paramour of social media. If we can understand how to drive engagement over such long pieces of writing, we will become better online storytellers.… Continue reading Storytelling lessons from “A Song of Ice And Fire”

Comment structurer un récit?

Je me suis lancé dans un projet de fiction, ce mois-ci. J’essaie de suivre le rythme de NaNoWriMo (1700 mots/jour). Malheureusement, je suis encore bien en dessous. Peut-être à cause du fait que j’explore l’histoire sans avoir établi de plan. Pour en avoir le coeur net, quelques-unes de mes séances d’écriture ont été utilisée pour… Continue reading Comment structurer un récit?