Hi Everyone,
I hope you’re all excited about next week’s show and working on some stories to tell. The theme is Tiny Acts – Little things that meant a lot. Themes are just suggestions, though. You can tell any story you want as long as it follows our usual rules.
Here’s a story I just stumbled on that I find inspiring in a writerly, storytelling kind of way. I’m pretty sure the teller started working on the story with nothing in mind except the last moment of the story and then went backward to add in just enough elements to bring the audience to that final moment.
It’s usually easier to start working on a story from a single moment and flesh everything out from there, going backward and forward as necessary. This is especially true if the story takes place over the span of months or years. If the story happens all in a couple hours or one day, you probably already know where it begins and ends. But when we’re working with months and years, it takes a while to figure out which moments and memories to use to build out the story.
The story below takes place over at least a few months, so the teller had to think of all the things that happened during that time that had anything to do with the final scene and then choose 3-4 memories that would best get him to where he needed to be. I think he did a great job.
Hope to see you all on the 19th at the Swedish club!
Email me if you have any questions or need help on a story.
Paul
freshgroundstories@gmail.com
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