Creating Low Points for Your Protagonists
This popular storytelling tactic comes with pitfalls, but it can also accomplish a lot.| Mythcreants
This popular storytelling tactic comes with pitfalls, but it can also accomplish a lot.| Mythcreants
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson I awoke Friday morning to the sound of a drip in my bathroom. Amazing how a drop of water in another room landing on a bath mat that’s designed to absorb water can penetrate the unconscious. It felt like I came … Continue reading Ropes are Relational→| Surprised By Joy
“Tell me facts, and I’ll learn. Tell me truth, and I’ll believe you. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.” – Native American Proverb I’m always amazed at how much hearing someone’s story impacts me. For instance, I published a post on Monday about how I had to evacuate … Continue reading How to Share Resilience→| Surprised By Joy
Bath time is the perfect time to add a little storytelling to your day. This bath time storytelling activity is both spooky and fun! (And easy to prep!)| Confidence Meets Parenting
PR agencies aren’t only storytellers but also architects of influence who integrate their strategies with marketing, technology, and data.| Modern Marketing Today
PARTNER VOICES | Kiyokawa Family Orchards reflects on their intergenerational history and succession planning for the future| Ecotrust
For healthcare brands, YouTube is more than a channel—it’s a strategic advantage. Here’s how to harness it. The post Educate, Engage, Earn Trust: How YouTube is Transforming Healthcare Marketing appeared first on Forum for Healthcare Strategists.| Forum for Healthcare Strategists
Find your foundation voice and story in this new masterclass for healthcare foundation chief executives and marketing leaders. The post Finding Your Foundation Voice and Story Masterclass appeared first on Forum for Healthcare Strategists.| Forum for Healthcare Strategists
"Well, I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun." -Chevy Chase as Clark W. Griswold in Vacation| Makoism
Stories have been how humans have always connected. From the campfire to the smartphone, people remember a good story much longer than a slogan or tagline. For small or midsized brands, it is the secret that makes them stand out from competitors. The best brand storytelling examples go beyond informing to create a narrative that… The post Brand Storytelling Examples Every Marketer Should Know appeared first on Designerly.| Designerly
We are thrilled to announce the slate of presenters for the next installment of Phenomenal: Fall 2025, our bi-annual storytelling event. Join us for a cozy and entertaining evening of live storytelling focused on nature’s many magical responses to the onset of winter. In mid-November, we’re adjusting to shorter daylight hours during which views have […] The post A Phenomenal Lineup for November 13! appeared first on Maine Audubon.| Maine Audubon
For anyone that has tried to get anything published, we understand the pain. Finding that right fit for you and your book, article or artwork is not an easy business. That’s why we really app…| The Heart of the Matter
In this article, I’m going over the best insights from my interviews with CMOs and marketing leaders on creative cultures, along with some findings from my own research.| CMO Alliance
Get more out of your social media content strategy this November with our social media content calendar.| blog.videoscribe.co
Un percorso per imparare a comunicare meglio, scrivendo di meno. L'articolo Short Writing: comunicare meglio, scrivendo di meno sembra essere il primo su Scuola Holden.| Scuola Holden
Un corso per scoprire la forza delle parole, mettendo l’immagine da parte.| Scuola Holden
One of our goals for this Chapter Leader newsletter is to create a forum for chapter leaders to learn from each other and about each other. We're calling this feature "A Rising Tide" because when one of our chapters succeeds, we all succeed - and we should share those strategies and successes with each other| Together Women Rise -
Villain reveals never get old, but they can be tricky.| Mythcreants
Ware's comics employ complex, discontinuous structures that require the reader to explore.| CCCB LAB
This week on the Intelligent Edge, Consultant Catherine Cefalu shares how important storytelling is to the work we do as prospect researchers.| Helen Brown Group
Unpack the hidden role of psychology and design in the trust economy. See the surprising aspects that built Airbnb. The post Trust by Design: How Airbnb Invited Strangers Home appeared first on Point of View.| Point of View
Marketing is fundamentally about forging human connections and relationships. What better way to achieve that than by structuring your brand storytelling around the archetypal character dynamics that have resonated across cultures and centuries of human storytelling?| CMO Alliance
EXCERPT: PARTNER VOICES | Learn more about Ron Goode, a 2025 Indigenous Leadership Awardee The post Carrying the flame of cultural regeneration appeared first on Ecotrust.| Ecotrust
PARTNER VOICES | Read about Tony A. (naschio) Johnson, a recipient of the 2025 Indigenous Leadership Awards The post Fighting Forward: Tony A. (naschio) Johnson, Chinook Indian Nation appeared first on Ecotrust.| Ecotrust
PARTNER VOICES | Hear from Shelly Covert, an Emerging Leadership recipient of this year's Indigenous Leadership Awards The post Reclaiming visibility with Shelly Covert, Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe appeared first on Ecotrust.| Ecotrust
PARTNER VOICES | Introducing a new podcast from Ecotrust called, "Tending the Tides: Stories of Mariculture on the Oregon Coast" The post Episode 1: Introducing Tending the Tides appeared first on Ecotrust.| Ecotrust
PARTNER VOICES | Hear from Beth Froembling, owner of Atypical Roots| Ecotrust
One of my favorite quotes about the power of autobiographical fiction comes from humorist Kevin Kling, “We need to rewrite our story sometimes just so we can get some sleep.” In this ep…| The Heart of the Matter
Continued from Part 1. The other day, I saw an ad for NuCloud, a Halloween concert featuring over 150 VTubers being held aboard the USS Hornet, a warship that participated in the Battle of Midway and picked up astronauts after … Continue reading →| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
This is an American dipper, also known as a ‘water ouzel,’ the only aquatic songbird found in North America. Photo by GregTheBusker, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons My personal journey …| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Un week end a Casa Feltrinelli per scoprire dall’interno la figura dell’editor. L'articolo Officina: lavorare a un libro sembra essere il primo su Scuola Holden.| Scuola Holden
Un corso per imparare a raccontare un brand come se fosse un mondo, capace di vivere in ogni spazio fisico e digitale.| Scuola Holden
We can break the rules a little, as a treat.| Mythcreants
Women account for about one in four subjects and sources in the media. What on earth is going on?| The Persistent
Since its beginnings, the internet has been both a refuge and a meeting point for LGTBIQ+ communities. The web allowed them to talk about their idols and imagine less heterosexual worlds. We look back on the story of one of the first virtual Catalan communities which grew from a storyline about two young gay men […] The post Look at Me, the “Mar i Cel” in the Heart of The City appeared first on CCCB LAB.| CCCB LAB
Sign-up to Host a 2026 Carnival! It’s that time of year again! We are now officially opening the sign-ups for the 2026 RPG Blog Carnival. We are looking for twelve dedicated bloggers to host …| of Dice and Dragons
As I was reading Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography "The Story of My Experiments with Truth," it dawned on me that building a startup is no different from buildi...| inspired by rebels
'The Science of Storytelling' by Will Storr has revolutionized how I craft stories. These five lessons in particular leveled up my craft.| Stephan Joppich
PARTNER VOICES | Learn more about Satsan (Herbert George), a 2025 Indigenous Leadership Awardee The post Satsan (Herbert George), Wet’suwet’en Nation appeared first on Ecotrust.| Ecotrust
PARTNER VOICES | Learn more about the Tribal Marine Stewards Network, the 2025 Indigenous Leadership group awardee The post Returning Stewardship and Traditional Management to a Broken System: Tribal Marine Stewards Network appeared first on Ecotrust.| Ecotrust
PARTNER VOICES | Meet Ryan Reed, one of this year's Indigenous Leadership Awards in the Emerging Leaders category The post Rooted in Fire and Community appeared first on Ecotrust.| Ecotrust
PARTNER VOICES | Reeba Daniel, founder of Keep Growing Seeds, reflects on their journey in the farm to school movement| Ecotrust
Storytelling is a powerful educational tool that allows a teacher to take their children to different worlds. It demonstrates knowledge & a love of reading.| Inclusiveteach.com
Season 2 Deep Dive: What Our Guests Are Teaching Us About Connection By Sakinah Bowman Early August, I sat on my balcony facing the mountains with a steaming cup of chamomile tea, reflecting on the year-long journey that brought Arts2Work Conversations Season 2 to life. A full year of meetings, digging for thoughtful questions, and...| The Alliance
'The magic of espresso is that it's only made with 50 beans.' - Andrea Illy| Makoism
Complete product narrative guide with free resources, templates, and step-by-step frameworks you can use today.| Product Marketing Alliance
Today is math storytelling day, so I thought I would make a visual coloring sheet as a prompt for others. What characters live in this world? What stories are there to tell? What number system would you have? What mathemagical spells would you cast? Where would you explore? If you| Fractal Kitty
By Dr. Mark Perloe & Justine Perloe, Co-authors of Milo’s Superpower| The Mommies Reviews
Un corso per imparare a condurre presentazioni letterarie efficaci, dall’analisi del libro fino all’incontro con l’autore.| Scuola Holden
When stealing a plot from a different medium, start with the perfect plan.| Mythcreants
While romance may look simple, it's anything but.| Mythcreants
Tension's not about things being bad, it's about things getting worse.| Mythcreants
“Your attitude is either the lock or the key to the door of success.” – Dennis Waitley The lead up to this joke happened 13 months ago. I know because I blogged about it on Sharin…| Surprised By Joy
Why is so much of our messaging confusing, convoluted? It's time to simplify. Learn how to unclog your copy with this simple copy framework.| Ann Handley
Van glimlach tot interface: leer hoe subtiele signalen, timing en authenticiteit je website menselijker en gebruiksvriendelijker maken.| Motionmill webdesign Antwerpen
Have you started working on your annual appeal and year-end fundraising plan? It’s beyond time! I worked for 30 years in the trenches, so I know exactly what this time of year feels like. It feels like you’re at the base of a mountain you’re about to scale. Exciting, but also scary. Exhilarating, yet also…| Clairification
InfiniteTalk is an image-to-video AI tool that can generate videos of talking avatars for conversations and scenarios.| Experiencing Elearning
These 135+ character flaws help you create layered personalities and high-stakes conflict. Perfect for building emotional, believable characters in your short story, novel or screenplay!| Neil Chase Film Inc.
PARTNER VOICES | Speaking with Tara Violetta, farmer and founder of Sun Moon Fields The post Reflecting on farm and community, with Tara Violetta, Sun Moon Fields appeared first on Ecotrust.| Ecotrust
PARTNER VOICES | Learn more about Robert Kentta, a 2025 Indigenous Leadership Awardee| Ecotrust
Learn why it’s important to add location information to photos. Improve storytelling, preserve memories, and make your photo library easier to search in Mylio Photos.| Mylio Photos Blog
"Coffee! Because anger management is too expensive." – Unknown| Makoism
"If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all." - David Letterman| Makoism
Emotional connections are essential in every marketing strategy. And what better way to make a connection is through brand storytelling? But how?| Logomakerr.AI Blog | Logo, Branding, Business
Welcome to the weekend!| Wasteland And Sky
I’ve spoken here and there on social media about organizing your children’s books by season. We keep our entire children’s library in our “Seasonal Book Boxes” stored in the basement. These boxes are large 70 QT clear plastic bins, one for each season. Within each we store, the children’s books, seasonal toys and decorations for the… The post Organizing your Children’s Books by Season appeared first on Meagan Rose Wilson - Holistic Parenting Resources.| Meagan Rose Wilson – Holistic Parenting Resources
Against a backdrop of spruce trees at the far end of a small beach, a large boulder squats at the edge of the bay. Its top half is dry and pale. The lower half is damp and dirty-bronze. It’s too big to be jostled by the tides. In the foreground of this photo, dozens of smaller stones lie half-buried in sand. Beyond the boulder, a dead spruce has been partially uprooted. Its bare branches look brittle against the other, still upright, lushly-needled trees. From the photo, it’s impossible t...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
It's only a load-bearing part of the story - what could go wrong?| Mythcreants
If a sword isn't held below someone's chin, is it really romance?| Mythcreants
What if the world wasn't entirely silly?| Mythcreants
Historically, fandom has been the home of marginalised groups who have used the spaces provided to experiment with texts and ways of sharing them. However, with the growing commercialisation of the internet, the extraction of economic benefits from fan communities is transforming their participatory dynamics. It was the morning after the big move, and I […] The post Fanfiction Inc. appeared first on CCCB LAB.| CCCB LAB
“In times of uncertainty, what we can imagine ahead of us matters.” I write on Kaliane Bradley’s wonderful novel The Ministry of Time for the British Science Fiction Association&#…| matt finch / mechanical dolphin
Way back on May 11th of 2022, I was visiting my team (Edge browser) for the week in Redmond, Washington. On Wednesday night, I left my ThinkPad X1 Extreme laptop in a work area on the 4th floor of the office when I went out for drinks with friends. After dinner, I decided not toContinue reading "An Improbable Recovery"| text/plain
Isn’t it true that every business owner wants their brand to be at the top of their customers’ buying journeys? This can only be achieved through a focused strategy that engages audiences with consistent messaging.| POWR Blog
When I was a toddler, my dad wrote a novel. I don’t remember the writing process itself, but I recall hearing about it as a young child. My dad submitted it to many publishers and agents. All rejec…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Richard Shepherd dives into how the Nike Better World website was made. Learn how it was put together, and then use similar techniques to create our own parallax scrolling website.| Smashing Magazine
Learn how modern small businesses grow fast with social media. Discover step-by-step strategies to build trust, reach audiences, and turn posts into sales.| blog.powr.io
PROGRAM UPDATE | A recap of the 2025 Indigenous Agroforestry Network Gathering: Partnership Workshops| Ecotrust
Boost your October social media with our social media content calendar.| blog.videoscribe.co
When our house burnt to the ground, the thing I remember most was standing in the rain, praying it would put out the flames. Ever since, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with summer rains. As a ki…| Helping You To Succeed
Sunny Yi-Han Lin, an SEWF25 speaker, is on a mission to transform social entrepreneurship in the Mandarin-speaking world. As Founder and CEO of Social Enterprise Insights—the first hub of its kind—she has built a pioneering Mandarin online to offline platform that connects changemakers, nurtures talent and accelerates impact. In this interview, Sunny shares how her […] The post “Our model is about turning passive readers into active changemakers” — an interview Sunny Yi Han Lin ap...| SEWF
“What’s your story?” How many monumental human experiences have emanated from this simple question? Researchers believe that as far back as 300,000 years ago, our ancestors could speak as we do now—and told stories. Studies show that even today, our brains are wired for storytelling, not logic. Which makes sense. Stories bind us and help […] The post Dan Milnor on why stories still matter (20 years later) appeared first on Blurb Blog.| Blurb Blog
These heroic traits will make your main character a success.| Mythcreants
The strange origin of this Latin phrase and what it means for storytellers.| Mythcreants
Polignano a Mare é uma cidadezinha medieval banhada pelo mar Adriático em Puglia, sul da Itália, onde nasceu Domenico Modugno, um dos maiores cantores italianos da história, famoso mundialmente por sua canção Nel blu dipinto di blu (que talvez você conheça como Volare). Eu estava na cidade natal de Modugno vivendo la dolce vita durante […] O post Storytelling: Anthony Bourdain e a arte de contar histórias apareceu primeiro em Matheus de Souza.| Matheus de Souza
Jogue no Google a frase “o que eu aprendi” e você verá que os produtores de conteúdo têm aprendido as mais variadas coisas com as mais variadas situações. São lições aprendidas com alguma série, com o fim de algum relacionamento, com uma demissão ou até mesmo com um casal de idosos que decidiu viajar o […] O post O que eu aprendi escrevendo textos sobre o que eu aprendi apareceu primeiro em Matheus de Souza.| Matheus de Souza
Syntagma verbindet Storytelling und Spaß, um in einem Syntax-Seminar vermeintlich trockene Inhalte zu vermitteln. Gastbeitrag von Katja Politt. In einem Spiel, in dem es dezidiert um Sprache geht, wird auch mit Sprache gespielt. Da...| Language at Play
Plus, more on crisis and campaigns.| Ragan Communications
Branding present your company to the world and differentiate it from competitors. Let's discuss the significance of branding your business and how to do so effectively| Techie Loops
According to GoFundMe Pro (formerly Classy), LinkedIn is the highest converting social media channel for nonprofits, with a 30% conversion rate on mobile and 50% on desktop. Not only is the platform the highest converting, but LinkedIn for Nonprofits found that LinkedIn members are 56% more likely than the average person online to donate to nonprofits. If your nonprofit has not been taking advantage of everything LinkedIn offers, it’s not too late! LinkedIn is as relevant today as ever—an...| Firespring
The brutal truth about your video's first 10 seconds You've spent hours crafting the perfect video. Your message is spot-on, your visuals are stunning, and your call-to-action is compelling. But here's the kicker, 20% of your viewers have already clicked away before you even get to the good stuff.| Videoscribe blog
It's time to embrace autumn as we step into September! As the seasons change, consider restructuring your social media or marketing strategy for the upcoming colder months. Get a leg up with our own social media calendar so you don't miss an important date this month! 📅| Videoscribe blog
Ever watched someone's eyes glaze over while you're explaining a complex concept? We've all been there, our brains process visual information 60,000 times faster than text. That's not just a fun fact; it's your secret weapon for making complicated ideas crystal clear.| Videoscribe blog
The secret weapon behind every captivating video? A killer storyboard You know that feeling when you're watching a video and suddenly realize you've been completely absorbed for the past five minutes? That's not an accident. Behind every engaging animation, explainer video, or educational presentation lies a carefully crafted storyboard that guides viewers through a compelling narrative journey.| Videoscribe blog
