Category Archives: Rock Soup

Useful story telling techniques I’ve observed at Weber State Story Telling Festival. (2/29/12)

It has been great observing fellow story tellers at the Weber State Storytelling festival. I thought for today’s creativity discussion in Rock Soup, I would relay some observations of what I’ve seen other tellers do to handle their audience, address … Continue reading

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Collected data and ask questions. (2/22/12)

I had a goal. Get a website created. I am not a technical kind of gal. The only byte I know is from a juicy peach. I have to constantly have my hand held, on anything computer related. I admit … Continue reading

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List of Books that Publishers Want (2/15/12)

If gives me a personal delight to take advantage of the knowledge of other people and this is a great example. At Life the Universe and Everything writing symposium in 2011 the panel of this name discussed what kids have … Continue reading

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Pet Projects gone wild (2/8/12)

Today’s discussion is a bit of a tribute to the Life the Universe and Everything symposium and to the Leading Edge Magazine. First of all a little history, around 1981 at BYU University a group of students took a SF/F … Continue reading

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Bungee Plot: (2/1/12)

Bungee. Today’s discussion is going to touch how I sometimes develop a story line. I will give a specific example from a story that readers felt was an unusual plot. The story is called Bungee. Bungee was first created while … Continue reading

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