Tell me a story

[eggwards]

In order to avoid another "god I hate work" post:

One thing I love is a good story. Interest, Intriuge and/or a good sense of humor will hook me quick. I tend to read a lot, news, comics, magazines and now, Live Journal. Obviously this fits right in.

The story doesn't even have to be your own, but you have to have some sense of the feeling, the emotion behind it. Comic Book writers aren't generally flying from building to building or smashing cars into supervillans, but the best understand their characters feelings and emotions.

Naturally, I'm entertained by the storyteller. I'm a listener, it takes a certain familliarity for me to open up to someone and tell them my stories. I'm more likely-if we're in conversation mode-to learn a lot more about you, than you will about me. I love learning about someone through their communication and speech. Local phrases and patterns facinate me. I remember Craig, a fraternity brother from New Hampshire when he came to UH and kept using "Wicked Awesome". Had me in stitches.

Perhaps that expresses my current boredom with reality television. It was interesting early on, but now all the stories are boring, and overdone. How many more "Real Worlds" do we need? There's an art to storytelling there, too. Fear Factor doesn't have it. Lately, only the Amazing Race has kept my attention, if you could find it.

Music is yet another form of storytelling. Allthough I'm not into opera (since that subject came up, cristalskye), I can see the appeal. Lyrics are a big part of my like or dislike of the song. this is why I still love the Beatles, Billy Joel and Elton John. Now I love Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds and Coldplay. Emotional lyrics stick with me, and become me.

Back to storytelling. You wish to hold my attention? Make the story fun and interesting. Make it colorful and thought-provoking. Simile, metaphor, the odd reference. It doesn't have to be long or short. Just don't be dull.

So, can I tell a story, you ask? I can, but it may be a while before you get it out of me.

I just use to many words.

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Comments

[garebear.livejournal.com]

You are a wonderful storyteller...writing is good therapy and I hope your weekend inspired you. And you give writing a try...playwriting? Join a workshop...The great thing about writing dialog is that you get to use bad grammar and purposely misspell things...but it's also a great way to express yourself. One of my writing mentors told me that the best writers are tortured souls. I think you fit in. Tell us a story!

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

A tortured soul, am I? I do it to myself, I guess.

I've been thinking of telling some stories of my past, but every time I think about doing it, I'm not around the computer. Then I find that something else comes up.

Fiction's harder than reality, though.

[garebear.livejournal.com]

You're a tortured soul...partly because of your work, but I'm sometimes assume that most of us "bearish" types had a hard time growing up. For me, it was difficult being a big gay kid. In my writing workshop I have a woman who is going through divorce, an emergency room physician, a flamboyantly gay art director, a paralegal who also happens to be an academy award winning producer/writer, a computer geek who work for the Veteran's Administration...the stories they tell are fact, fiction and everything inbetween...but they are all fascinating. Along other lines, I've always been safe...I've worked at the same place for 22 years. Technically, I've been there since after high school. I see people who have given up everything to pursue different dreams. A Wall Street stock broker, a Columbia Law School graduate, an Aerospace engineer who left (or are getting ready to leave) their stable, well-paying jobs to pursue -- acting. A couple have earned their SAG card -- but it doesn't mean that they aren't struggling. There's also a school teacher who left to become a writer. She's been interning at ABC/Disney, but I don't understand most of her writing...but I'm not alone. I envy these people, but look at their struggle. I guess I've become complacent in a job that I sometimes can't bear to go to. Fiction isn't always harder than reality.

I got a story!

[ilorsodirettore.livejournal.com]

See, there was this guy, this kinda loud, scary Meskin, and he thought this big bearded guy who came into his Starbucks one day was really cute, and he thought that maybe he should ask the big cute boy out for dinner and a movie, so he did.

I don't know how it ends, though... :)

Re: I got a story!

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I don't know, either. Hmm.