Projects
These topics refer to projects I’ve thought about and worked on.
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Cringe and joy, part zero
This post is the first (well, the zeroth) in a new series of 32 blog posts recalling moments of cringe (when my work didn’t work as well as I hoped it would) and joy (when my work worked as well as I hoped it would, or better). Read more
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The email newsletter is ready
Describing the start of the email newsletter (I have spared you the gory details) and the slow startup of the PNI Practicum courses. Read more
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Story-Colored Glasses has a new home
In this post I inform you that I’ve moved the blog from Blogger to WordPress, describe the process, and describe the mailing list I will soon have available to find out about new posts. Read more
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The PNI Practicum courses are ready
This post describes the new, rebooted PNI Practicum courses. It also talks about the changes I have made in rebooting the courses. Read more
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The PNI Practicum courses are on their way back
I’ve been working my way through rebooting my online courses. I thought I might be ready by March, and then April, but there has been (as always) much more to do than I expected. I now plan to start two new courses in May and one in June. I should have a link to my Read more
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More course adjustments
Just in case anyone is checking this blog to see how my course preparations are going … they’re going, but they’re going slowly. Decisions take time to make, and I’m working my way through a mountain of decisions right now. I’m firm on some things, but on other things I’ve been waffling back and forth Read more
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New course schedule and other decisions
I’ve been working on getting my rebooted PNI Practicum courses ready to go, and I’ve made several decisions (and changes to my previous plans). If you are interested in taking one of the courses, you might want to hear what has been going on. TL;DR – A new 4-week Prelude course will be starting on Read more
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New Working with Stories books; New PNI Practicum courses
I am happy to announce that all four books in the new Working with Stories series are finished and published and accessible in three formats: If you think these books are useful, and if you can afford it, please consider buying at least one print or Kindle book or making a donation. I did not have the Read more
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NarraCat
Note: I moved this writing from a page to a post, so it seems new, but it’s actually quite old (circa 2014). Also note: I have left this page (now post) up for archival purposes, but NarraCat is no longer being supported. It was superceded by NarraFirma. You can still download and use (and adapt) Read more
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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
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Progress + gratitude
Hello everybody. I have just finished rewriting the 9th chapter of Working with Stories. I have 5 chapters left to go. The writing is going well, and I am gaining confidence in my hope that WWS4 will be more helpful to people than WWS3 has been. I’m wrapping up my gift to the world, and Read more
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Surgery
Major surgery. Not for me. For Working with Stories. Lately I have been expanding my book Working with Stories into a four-book series: Recently I finished writing Working with Stories Simplified, which I started working on two years ago when I was building my online courses. Next on my list was the updating of WWS Read more
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One down, three to go
I have just uploaded my finished book manuscript for Working with Stories Simplified. You can download it on the “More” page at workingwithstories.org. Now an update and an explanation. When I wrote here last, I was looking for a job, having given up on making (enough) money from consulting and online courses. I looked for Read more
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The open source PNI Practicum courses are ready to go
Hello everybody. My free and open-source PNI Practicum courses are finally ready for you to use. As of today, any interested group can download the materials, form a cohort, schedule some meetings, and get started. The courses now require a minimum cohort of at least seven people, at least one of whom is comfortable facilitating Read more