When you're working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you're opening yourself up.
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When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.
Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with - in terms of access to documents, psychological understanding of their subjects, artful composition and determination to extrapolate from an individual's life lessons and insights that we can all learn from - I am each time overwhelmed by joy.
Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.
A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.
When I work on my own stuff - and I think this is true for anybody - but when you work on something that you just completely own, you are trying to stay as true to your own storytelling voice as you can.
The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
Storytelling is about listening in any media.
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