Noah lives in Columbus Ohio, where he put on Journey to the End of the Night, and sits on the Board of Directors for Story Luck.
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Aug 16 2021
An Interview as Means of Understanding Technique. Noah Firestone Talks With Storyteller, Dan Boyd.
Noah Firestone asks Dan Boyd some deep philosophical questions about portraying different characters while telling personal stories.
Permanent link to this article: https://storyluck.org/an-interview/
Jul 20 2021
You Think You’re Bad at Storytelling. Let’s Give You Another Way to Look at It.
If you think you can’t get better at storytelling, you’re wrong. Let Carol Dweck explain skills with incremental theory.
Permanent link to this article: https://storyluck.org/you-think-youre-bad-at-storytelling-lets-give-you-another-way-to-look-at-it/
Mar 29 2021
Story Arc or How to Keep Your Audience’s Attention
The idea of a story arc is a concept you’re probably familiar with. We talk about it a lot in our Workshop Workshop because we’ve found it a versatile tool. The Workshop Crew uses it to think about and reason through our stories. It’s a way of mapping tension inside of the three act structure. …
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Mar 20 2021
Workshop Workshop Featuring Tim Barnes
Tim Barnes is a Los Angeles born Brooklyn-based comedian and writer whose absurdist humor brings light to social issues from unexpected angles.
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Mar 17 2021
5L1K and the Importance of Listening Well
A big part of our Workshop! Workshop! lessons is that everything’s a skill, and if you practice you’ll get better. Listening is a skill. It’s an almost meditative skill. Often, we don’t think about listening as being a skill because so much of our listening has become passive listening. Passive listening is hearing the person …
Permanent link to this article: https://storyluck.org/5l1k-storytelling-is-a-skill-based-learning-methodology/
Mar 15 2021
Doug Lipman, Listening, and 5L1K
These posts are adapted from the 20 minute lessons on story telling presented by Dan at the beginning of our Workshop! Workshop! show. All links are affiliate links. Here at Story Luck we really liked Doug Lipman’s Book on Storytelling. It’s a huge influence on us. I want to relay an anecdote Doug recounts in …
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Mar 12 2021
How Does One Lean in to Listen Well?
When you listen to other people it’s practice for when you have to listen to yourself. What you’re listening for is subtle but it helps you when you apply that found knowledge to your own stories.
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Mar 11 2021
Workshop Workshop Featuring – Vanessa Tardiff from I love Bad Star Trek
Join us Monday6pm CentralFreeTwitch.tv/storyluckFacebook Invite Vanessa Loves Bad Star Trek Vanessa Tardiff has been calling Chicago home for the last decade since leaving home in Washington, D.C. But we get the sense she’d be just as happy on the bridge of the Enterprise. As soon as she was capable of spelling she tells us, she …
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Mar 10 2021
The Power of Listening
Deep listening is an active process. Fundamentally what you are aiming for is to understand what the other person is trying to convey. Often that means you will need to ask questions to help clarify and fill in any details that are missing.
Permanent link to this article: https://storyluck.org/the-power-of-listening/
Mar 05 2021
Elaborative vs Repetitive Mothers
One group is the Elaborative Mother and the other is the Repetitive Mother. The Repetitive Mother tells you just the facts. She places importance on the order of events and she wants to know why you’re telling the story. She wants to help you get through it and so she’ll ask questions and create scaffolding to help you create your story to help you be succinct and direct.
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The Hot Girl Game is Best Played with Women You Trust. (A Bad Feminist Story.)
“Dan, do you want to play the hot girl game?”
Valarie is one of my oldest Chicago friends and she is coy with sly winks, and surprise happy shouts you come to expect. This mirth is tempered by the…
Reasons I Don’t Use the Word Feminist Out Loud
Growing up an early Millennial all my female friends would say, “I’m not a feminist.”
This would follow a string of feminist beliefs they did hold. And I’d say, “Yeah. I’m for all that.” And they’d explain, they didn’t like the…
Today's the last day of my Easter holiday and I'm going to make it a build day.
After probably 25 years of thinking about it, I'm going to finally build myself a website.
Will update this thread as I go.
I am addicted to rock climbing and I hate every minute of it.
For years, I’d poo-pooed rock climbing.
Why wouldn’t I go running instead?
Now that I’ve tried it… I know… running would be way healthier and more efficient. (Swimmers are giving me the, “If you really want a…
