2025
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Blurry
Hello all. Here’s a little update on my progress finishing my new Working with Stories books. I have finished the indexes, and I’ve finished going through the hundreds of wonderfully useful comments and suggestions sent to me by “my” editor. Now I’m in the final proofreading stage, which is going . . . blurrily. When I Read more
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My left pinky
It hurts. My left pinky hurts because I’ve hit the same keys a million times over while indexing three books. But I am happy to tell you that the indexing phase is finally over. (The Sourcebook doesn’t need an index, given its already-organized structure.) You know how they say that if women remembered the pain of Read more
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All four books are ready to read
Yesterday I uploaded the new workingwithstories.org web site with final pre-publication drafts of all four Working with Stories books. You can now read all four books in their entirety, typographical errors and all. Four things still have to happen before the books are fully published. I hope to have all four books available for purchase Read more
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New book cover designs (and a brick wall)
Five weeks ago, when I wrote my last blog post, I thought that by now I would have finished The Working with Stories Sourcebook, the last in my new book series. But I ran into a brick wall. The big exciting project I mentioned last fall has now had its funding fully rescinded (for political Read more
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Three down, one to go
My pace is quickening. I have just posted my pre-publication draft of The Working with Stories Miscellany: Essays and Other Writings on Participatory Narrative Inquiry. It’s on the “More” page of workingwithstories.org. The new miscellany book (formerly called “In Depth”) comes to about 420 pages. It brings together 38 pieces of writing that didn’t make Read more
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WWS4 is ready to read
I am happy to announce that I have just released my pre-publication drafts of Working with Stories (the 4th edition) and Working with Stories Simplified on the book’s web site (on the More page). I am also happy to report that, even though I greatly increased the white space (thus readability) of WWS4, and even Read more
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More progress
Hello big crazy world. I have just finished updating the Sensemaking chapter of Working with Stories for its fourth edition. It took months, but it’s done, and it’s a lot better than it was. Only three chapters left! After those are done, probably in March or April, I will release the first draft of WWS4 Read more