Bloggers-Keeping the Art of Story Telling Alive

You bring up a good point about the story telling aspect. With the 140 word Twitter stuff, I am seeing less and less 'good story telling' to fit into that short layout.  It's choppy and disjointed thinking just for folks who only have 3 seconds of their attention to spend on any thought.  You keep it up, your a good story teller.

Cindy I love this post.  It is so true about  my experience here at Active Rain.  While it would be better for business to write about home prices, I LOVE telling stories.... I feel compelled to.  I hadn't thought about it this way, but you have shed a new light on why we like to follow some bloggers... it's like we're sitting on their knee, listening, going "aw come on... just one more story".  Love it.

In fact, I have stories about growing up on my Grandfather's farm in Bothell, WA, and you've inspired me to write some and post them to a Washington group, if there is one.

Cindy,

What a wonderful way to look at blogging. With the addition of our photos next to our comments, I get the feeling even more that I know all of you!  It IS just like having conversation around the dinner table or the campfire.  Love your writing.

This is a much needed remoinder. Often we want to blog like Nobel Prize winners in economics which isn't us. Out stories are us. Share a piece of history and our place in it. Loved your post.

It will be interesting to see how blogs are passed on. Does that mean linking, reblogging, or sending others to the original source. I remember stories that my grandfather told me that he heard when he was a boy.

I do enjoy the stories told through blogs...it's a much more enjoyable read than just a bunch of information dumped on a post.

And with every post we become better story tellers, just as when we were kids, the more we read the better readers we became. We learn to write the story and draw the reader in. Some are just naturals, but others learn along the way, but either way we all grow.

Thanks for the great blog, I need to find my niche to the market of blogging. Keep up the good work

Scott

Your perspective on blogging has encouraged me to keep on writing!

I love your perspective linking blogging to storytelling -  I know one of the things I love about reading things on the Rain is how many members are willing to be very "real" and share a glimpse of their true, authentic selves thru their stories.  And it also made me flash on the memory of the made-up stories my father told my siblings & me about a gopher family with sisters Gertrude & Hepsibah!

Cindy, Story telling was also very big in my family,especially at Thanksgiving,Christmas and Easter when all the relatives would get together and tell stories. Of course they always started out with"when I was a child". Now I have children and at these holidays I find myself saying "when I was a child" Thanks so much for sharing. Barbara

One of my grandchildrens and childrens even favorite things is to listen to stories of when we were little.  I think they get a kick out of imagining us as little.  We do have some crazy stories when we start thinking back.

Great blog, I couldn't agree with you more.  I have been working on my storytelling skills in Toastmasters and I am looking forward to doing so with my blog posts.