May 2010

• 2010-05-25

  Story collection habits

  Once in a while my six-year-old walks up to me with a tool he has found around the house and says, “Mommy, how do you use this?” My response is always the same: “Give it to me and let me use it, and then I’ll tell you how to use it.” For a while he… Read more

• 2010-05-19

  One interpretation or two?

  This topic came up in our Swimming with Stories group call the other day. Swimming with Stories, if you didn’t know, is a Ning group whose primary purpose is to coordinate monthly phone calls where we trade ideas related to story listening. Anyone working in this area is welcome to join us. So anyway we… Read more

• 2010-05-10

  Resolving tensions between storyteller and story elicitor needs

  Here’s another question-from-a-correspondent going-into-the-book post (thanks correspondent!). The question is: how do you write questions so that people don’t latch onto the “right” answers instead of telling you how they really feel? Tensions between needs There is a tension in asking questions (both for and about stories) between what you want to know and what… Read more

• 2010-05-03

  Natural storytelling V – bits left over

  I found a bunch of scribbled notes that I had meant to incorporate in my last long post, but they got forgotten, so I thought why not make one more post-let and add them. (This is in reference to the long post that starts here so you may need to read that to make sense… Read more