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Defining Being a Storyteller
Storytelling has a broader impact than you might realize.
Being a writer is how I convey most of my stories. I love to tell a good story. My imagination has been a wild, crazy place for as long as I can remember. Even with a lot of lost memories, I recall many elements from the imagination of my childhood.
The home I lived in when I was 4 had a huge window at the front of the living room. I remember sitting at it, pretending it was the bridge of my spaceship. Swings on the swingset in my backyard were starfighters and cockpits of other starships. My Star Wars action figures never reenacted the movies, they went on new adventures of my creation. I had an imaginary butler I talked with from time to time when I was lonely or feeling especially friendless.
When I was 9, I wrote my first sci-fi book. After that, I shared my imagination in fits and spurts before deciding to write full-time. But the written word is not my only avenue of storytelling.
Common and uncommon everyday life adventures
Storytelling is a gift. The ability to do it is not something everyone has. We all know someone who can make any story, no matter how fascinating, utterly dull and uninteresting. Conversely, we all know someone who can make ordering lunch at a…
