WWS
These posts are about Working with Stories, the textbook (series) I started working on in 2008.
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Why I Have Not Been Blogging
See that? It’s a puppy. It’s cute. It’s deceptively cute. Do you value your time? If you do, do not get one of these. They are harder than you think. However: I am writing. The sensemaking chapter is nearly done. It is coming to something like 200 pages. When it is done I will release Read more
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Catalysis
People: I am writing this post wearing my Firefly t-shirt. Meaning: it is a Day of Great and Courageous Challenge. (Yes I am that much of a nerd.) Today, after many months of toil, I finally released a more-complete-yet-still-incomplete version of my monster of a book, Working with Stories. The two catalysis chapters (basic and Read more
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shhhhhh
Hm. It has been so long since I posted on this blog that Blogger changed the editing screen on me. Tells you something, doesn’t it? I just wanted to update anybody who might be wondering what I’ve been up to. I finished the catalysis chapter! I was all ready to post it about two weeks Read more
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There goes the hand
It’s morning, a few months ago, and I’m making coffee. First I set up the coffee mug with its ancient thing-that-holds-the-coffee on top, ready to receive the boiling water. Then I grab the empty electric tea kettle and swing it across the counter to the water faucet to fill it. In the midst of the Read more
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Nail fungus infection is not a choice of yours.
I’m sorry! I was cleaning out the spam this morning and came across that gem of a title. I just had to use it. What I mean by it is: here is a report on book writing progress. The book’s content is between eighty and ninety percent done (hard to say exactly). The more I Read more
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Hints of things to come
How is the book coming? I have nearly finished reviewing hundreds of books and papers and typing in must-have quotes from them, all so I can remove the unpleasant “sorry there are so few references here” bit I had in the book before. I have been having a wonderful time re-reading lots of things I Read more
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Mum’s the word
Resolved: The next post you see on this blog will announce the release of the third edition of my book Working with Stories. I have just six or seven sections left to write, then it’s cleanup and preparation for print publishing. It may take a month, it may take longer. But I have promised myself Read more
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What to expect: topics
Yes finally it’s a blog post related to the book. Does anyone remember that I said I was setting aside October to finish the rewriting of Working with Stories? Well, folks, October laughed. So many tasks came up unbidden that I was barely able to spend a few days on the book. But I did Read more
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Participative Narrative Inquiry
Recently I’ve started moving “into the onion” on writing the third edition of Working with Stories (I’m calling edition two the addition of the case studies last year, otherwise I’d get too mixed up). And I’m now in the process of forcing myself to confront some of the book’s shortcomings (having completed all possible stalling Read more
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Eight observations – 8th
The eighth observation of eight is about how computers and narrative connect. At the time I made the original eight observations I was working at IBM, so “how computing can help” was an important issue. Designing and writing software related to narrative is something I’ve done a lot of in the past several years, so Read more
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Eight observations – 7th
(This is the seventh in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) This blog post, on four types of storytellers (naturals, performers, etc), has been moved to (and Read more
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Eight observations – 6th
(This is the sixth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) What people think you mean when you talk about stories and story projects, and what you Read more
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Working with Stories wants to know
This is an open call to readers of my book Working with Stories. As some know, I started out this blog by dusting off a presentation I made in 2000 on eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups. I’ve been surprised by how much I have to say about those observations nine story-filled years Read more
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Eight observations – 5th
(This is the fifth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) This blog post has been moved to (and revised for) The Working with Stories Miscellany. You Read more
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Eight observations – 4th: herding
(This is the fourth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) (And then, in the fourth of the series of eight, this is the fourth in a Read more
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Eight observations – 4th: listening: opportunities
(This is the fourth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) (And then, in the fourth of the series of eight, this is the third in a Read more
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Quotes and echoes
I’m slowly preparing my next blog post while enduring a flu-like illness (I refuse to speculate). This entails looking back through old writings and in doing that I ran across these two interesting juxtaposed quotes. “Once upon a time, when people made more of their own things, they created more stories about their life experiences. Read more
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Eight observations – 4th: listening: dangers
(This is the fourth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) (And then, in the fourth of the series of eight, this is the third in a Read more