Comments on: Do you tell your own stories? http://www.craigstrachan.com/blog/2008/06/do-you-tell-your-own-stories.html www.craigstrachan.com/blog - Keep talking! Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:58:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Craig http://www.craigstrachan.com/blog/2008/06/do-you-tell-your-own-stories.html/comment-page-1#comment-40 Craig Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:14:46 +0000 http://www.craigstrachan.com/blog/2008/06/do-you-tell-your-own-stories.html#comment-40 Wayne- Good point that they can often be everyday stories. They don't need to be earth-shattering experiences about how you enormous overcame hardship. It can be a simple story that has meaning. Craig Wayne-

Good point that they can often be everyday stories. They don’t need to be earth-shattering experiences about how you enormous overcame hardship. It can be a simple story that has meaning.

Craig

]]> By: Wayne Botha http://www.craigstrachan.com/blog/2008/06/do-you-tell-your-own-stories.html/comment-page-1#comment-41 Wayne Botha Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:24:00 +0000 http://www.craigstrachan.com/blog/2008/06/do-you-tell-your-own-stories.html#comment-41 I agree. Creating personal stories is harder. The benefit is that once you have learned the process to create personal stories, you can apply the process over and over again which leads to an unlimited supply of stories. Events happen to us every day that can be crafted into suitable stories. I agree. Creating personal stories is harder. The benefit is that once you have learned the process to create personal stories, you can apply the process over and over again which leads to an unlimited supply of stories. Events happen to us every day that can be crafted into suitable stories.

]]> By: Craig http://www.craigstrachan.com/blog/2008/06/do-you-tell-your-own-stories.html/comment-page-1#comment-42 Craig Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:30:42 +0000 http://www.craigstrachan.com/blog/2008/06/do-you-tell-your-own-stories.html#comment-42 Thanks Ed for your comments- It does take huge effort to write your own stories, and especially to get them just right, but as you pointed out the rewards are huge! Thanks also for the book - I am going to source myself a copy. Craig Thanks Ed for your comments-

It does take huge effort to write your own stories, and especially to get them just right, but as you pointed out the rewards are huge! Thanks also for the book – I am going to source myself a copy.

Craig

]]> By: Ed Andriessen http://www.craigstrachan.com/blog/2008/06/do-you-tell-your-own-stories.html/comment-page-1#comment-43 Ed Andriessen Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:28:37 +0000 http://www.craigstrachan.com/blog/2008/06/do-you-tell-your-own-stories.html#comment-43 Dear Craig, I agree that not only are personal stories more powerful, they are actually easier to remember and relate. The downside of creating personal stories is...well...the creating. It takes some thought and effort to write, evaluate and revise your own personal story. But the return on effort is very rewarding. Here is a little resource I picked up many years ago that I use as a guide to developing my personal stories. A little book titled, "Telling Your Own Stories", by Donald Davis (available on Amazon used for about $5 US.) This little book has many good ideas and prompts for telling your own stories. Keep up the good blog posts. Dear Craig,

I agree that not only are personal stories more powerful, they are actually easier to remember and relate.

The downside of creating personal stories is…well…the creating. It takes some thought and effort to write, evaluate and revise your own personal story. But the return on effort is very rewarding.

Here is a little resource I picked up many years ago that I use as a guide to developing my personal stories. A little book titled, “Telling Your Own Stories”, by Donald Davis (available on Amazon used for about $5 US.) This little book has many good ideas and prompts for telling your own stories.

Keep up the good blog posts.

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