Tag Archives: story-telling

When You Think Storytelling, Think Movement

Lately I’ve spent some time reading a lot of stories from other authors, and even some of my own. The ones that work for me get a review on this blog. This latest exercise has once more left me wondering and pondering: what makes a story work? Though many aspects of a story make it […]

Bring on the women into our story-telling

Have you noticed how most stories you read or watch have fewer women than men? Does it bother you that in a world where women actually outnumber men (OK, by a small margin) most stories treat them as a by-the-way minority? How do our stories suffer when we tell them in a world nearly devoid […]

The 4 Cs of Storytelling

I used to ask what made a great storytelling photograph. Now I ask a similar question about written stories, and the answer keeps coming back with 4 Cs: Concept, Characters, Conflict and Context. I’ve heard a lot of broad arguments for what makes a great story, what makes it real and relatable, but for me […]

A thousand words and word pictures

A colleague once told me that while it may be true a picture is worth a thousand words, a bad picture causes a million questions. This and my exploration of story-telling through imagery, namely photography, and creative writing, with a mixture of essays — mostly about photography — and fiction has led me upon more […]