Our stories lift us, make us smile, make us despair, transform–and sometimes save–us.
The story-tellers’ timeless journey has drifted between orality and literacy, metaphors and memes, scribal tomes and open mics, Gutenberg’s press to iPhone authors, Hollywood blockbusters to small-screen Netflix, Big Studio domination to film scripts emailed to Black List.
What is so compelling about story-telling, and so universal about stories, that changing their shape seems to change nothing about their importance to us as a species?
Is our human passion for narratives part of a need to record and preserve scraps of an ephemeral existence?
Let’s talk about stories, how to make them meaningful, and what they mean–both to creators and to audiences.
The Artful Gluffster 