brevity

child

data

forgetfulness

friendship

gibberish

inability to focus

listening

lobster

narrative

narrative theory

nightmare

parent

parenting

persuasiveness

plot

presentation

story

storytelling

writing

Make A Day Feel Shorter

Only Get Said Out Loud

Reward Improvisation

is insipid without love, like beef without mustard.

A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid. Anatole France

 reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

is, in excess, one mark of a second-rate mind.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Jean de la Bruyere

is not commanded by the voice, but by the ear.

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. Italo Calvino

is invaluable --- better than gold is a tale rightly told.

is an instinct to come to terms with mystery, chaos, mess.

is power --- the one who tells the stories rules the world.

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

is about two things... character and plot.

Storytelling is about two things... it's about character and plot. George Lucas

love story

hammock

associative coherence

building a campfire

grandparent

happy ending

said

laughter

fishing

word-carpentry

chronicler

humorist

minstrel

comedy

dirty joke

nested frames

cave painting

D&D | Dungeons and Dragons

folk singer

Homer

manga

Mark Twain

metafolklore

mise en scène

Nisa

pan narrans

Pixar

recitative

Taylor Swift

Truman Capote

allegory

carrier-bag metaphor

cliffhanger

memory

plot hole

book

cinema

Aggadah

anthropomorphism

ballad

bard

believing in ghosts

Bill Cosby

blurred genre

camping

cave art

children's book

chronological illusion

collective immortality

Comanche (language)

community of sufferers

consciousness-raising

creative writing

digression

ethnopoetics

fable

fabulation

fiction

Geoffrey Chaucer

ghost story

Gladwell effect

Hans Christen Andersen

Kindergarten

lore-dumping

memory banking

once upon a time

oral formulaic theory

orality-literature

passover

Purim

raconteur

Robert Louis Stevenson

Seder

Southern American English (language)

Southern American Hillbilly English (language)

speculative fabulation

trope of the talking book

unreliable narrator

verbal art

wake (funeral)

Walter Benjamin

children's entertainment

fiction writing

narrative belief

re-narration

speakerly text

writing fiction

narration

narrator

bonding

teaching

folk tale

anecdote

bedtime story

campfire

fairy tale

oral tradition

celebration

conversation

curiosity

discovery

fascination

flow

immersion

learning

purpose

reading

travel

wonder

advice

answer

apology

argument

compliment

debate

discussion

explanation

greeting

persuasion

question

rumor

bullshitter

fisherman

legend

adaptation

exploration

hospitality

invention

leadership

negotiation

opportunity

performance

rescue

response

storytelling, n.Trivia

storytelling