2022

• 2022-11-18

  Getting ready for the first PNI Practicum courses

  Hello people of the world. So I have these two online courses coming up in January, project-based courses in participatory narrative inquiry. I’m pretty excited about them. If you don’t know about them already, you can read about them here. To my surprise, seven people have signed up (or just about) for the PNI Practicum… Read more

• 2022-10-04

  Announcing the PNI Practicum

  Hello everyone. People have been asking me to give a course in Participatory Narrative Inquiry for ages. Well: I’m finally doing it.  Some may remember that I started playing with the idea of giving PNI courses way back in 2015. I’ve been encouraged by many of the people I’ve talked to about it, so I… Read more

• 2022-03-10

  Cleaning the office again (and what stories are for)

  So I’m working on another crazy new business venture (you’ll find out soon enough), and when I start a new venture I always feel the need to clean my office.  What are stories for? Here’s a thing I came across in my cleaning that I thought you might like to see. Years ago, I wrote… Read more

• 2022-02-25

  Mail bag: How many stories?

  Last week somebody asked me a question via email that I’ve already answered lots of times: How many stories should a PNI project collect?  I was about to say “it’s on page whatever in my book,” like I usually do, but then I thought — why don’t I write something new this time, just to… Read more

• 2022-01-06

  Narratopia is an open source game

  Two blog posts back, I said I was going to work on Narratopia again. I said I planned to work on two tasks: (1) trim the print-on-demand version of the game to make it cheaper, and (2) make the game easier to translate.  I did try. For weeks. But both of the tasks turned out… Read more