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World of Stories
What makes a teller?
Fifteen ways to know if you're a storyteller!
- You can retell a 30-second joke as a 20-minute story.
- When someone tells you a story, you tell them a story.
- When someone asks you a question, you tell them a story.
- Your children complain, "We've heard that story a hundred times!"
- You can differentiate between epic, fable, fairytale, folk tale, legend, memoir, myth, ......parable, saga, tall tale, and yarn.
- You have wondered why "fairy tale" is two words but "folktale" is one.
- You can't read a collection of stories without noting which ones you might like to retell.
- You know what "tale type 333" means.
- You have missed a turning because you were telling yourself a story.
- You don't let what actually happened get in the way of a good story.
- You like folk music because folk singers introduce their songs by telling a story.
- You don't have to Google "398.2" to know what you'll find there.
- When things go horribly wrong you think, "If I live through this it will make a good story some day."
- Your children have stopped telling you what happened for fear you will make an embarrassing story out of it.
- You are trying to think of another way to know if you are a storyteller. What is it?
A beer named Nine Tales?!
I discovered this brown ale in Sydney and love its nutty flavour.
Not that I need an excuse to drink
a good ale,
but as a story teller, duty calls! Still waiting for them to sponsor me . . .
Maecenas condiment
In eget sapien vitae
In hac habitasse platea
We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images, siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story - Christina Baldwin, author, Storycatcher
Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page,
any more than
they begin on
the first page.
Cornelia Funke
