Storyteller in Training
Jun. 27th, 2007 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mythtellerI'm reading Dan Yashinsky's book Suddenly The Heard Footsteps and enjoying it very much. Dan is a storyteller based in Toronto and enjoys more fame than fortune from being a professional teller. I've met him several times, own many of his books, and respect him as a fine teller.
Ashamedly, I've been a bit lazy in my storytelling duties in the past couple of years. I haven't learned many new stories, I haven't retold some of the older, unfamiliar stories I know (I keep telling the ones I know really well), and I haven't practiced telling the stories in French. I also haven't been very proactive in finding new gigs.
But reading Yashinsky's book reawakens that fire in my belly. Every time I put the book down, I envision new opportunities to tell and get excited at the prospects. The problem is that, with the new job, I can't just pick up and leave to tell for a couple of days at a summer camp, school outing, or corporate event. Argh.
I need to reshuffle a few things to make storytelling a higher priority again. Come September (because storytelling always goes to sleep in the summer), I need to be back on the ball with new stories and new related projects and opps.
Ashamedly, I've been a bit lazy in my storytelling duties in the past couple of years. I haven't learned many new stories, I haven't retold some of the older, unfamiliar stories I know (I keep telling the ones I know really well), and I haven't practiced telling the stories in French. I also haven't been very proactive in finding new gigs.
But reading Yashinsky's book reawakens that fire in my belly. Every time I put the book down, I envision new opportunities to tell and get excited at the prospects. The problem is that, with the new job, I can't just pick up and leave to tell for a couple of days at a summer camp, school outing, or corporate event. Argh.
I need to reshuffle a few things to make storytelling a higher priority again. Come September (because storytelling always goes to sleep in the summer), I need to be back on the ball with new stories and new related projects and opps.
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Date: 2007-06-28 04:39 pm (UTC)The one story that I've written is an adaptation of the classic Quebecois tale of La Chasse Galerie. I have a video of me telling the story somewhere. I'll find it and post it up on the Facebook thing.