November 2007

Tales for 2

Telling stories on my own requires a lot of work. I have to find the story I like, decide for what audience it will fit, learn the text of the story and then craft it to become a telling tale. This takes time and effort. For the first time in my professional storytelling career I recently learned a story to be told in tandem (two people telling a story together, in this case my fellow storyteller, Debbie, and me). Learning this story added new challenges to the telling a story process, for now I was working with another individual.
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Are you listening?

Posted on November 14, 2007 at 2:35 pm in

There’s nothing more annoying than having to scream to get someone’s attention. You’re standing outside your house and you want your son/wife/mother/father to come out so that you can pass along some vital piece of information crucial to their survival and the best that you can do is scream out their name and hope they not only hear but respond.

Of course in our technologically sophisticated society that we have now, you could whip out your cell phone and speed dial the cell phones they all have and make your request. Of course if their phones are not on, they don’t have it with them or they are busy texting someone else. . . well, you can see the problem.
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