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Story creation How-To On Storytelling Pt 1 On Storytelling Pt 2 On Storytelling Pt 4 Storytelling theory and practice shortmemoir.com

return to home page Ira Glass is the creator and producer of Chicago Public Radio's This American Life.  He is a consummate story creator. In this Youtube segment he begins to tell some of his secrets.  This is very useful Story-telling 101.  Yes, he's talking about techniques for audio and video projects, but it's still story telling.  Very useful. More 101 from Ira Still more from Ira This is a 45 minute video piece from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on basic story-telling principles.  It isn't thrilling but it does get some points across. This is a pretty interesting site, even though what we're going to be doing here isn't technically memoir.  Ours will be memoir-once-removed: the tellilng of someone else's story.  Call ours narrative biography.  But you can still benefit from some of the material you'll find here.