Stories, Writing, Literature and Film
We learn best through stories. From the Bhagavad Gita, Bible, Koran to today’s education through “cases” — stories work, engage, edify, involve.
This is why I have worked to support AwesomeStories so long. This is why we build story-writing apps for students and teachers. Here is a “story” I wrote about the impact of “story” and writing on the brain.
Now I am going to write fictional stories. Here are some of the sources that have meant the most to me so far. I plan to gather notes on each here.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Barbara Kingsolver
Virginia Woolf
Margaret Atwood
J.K. Rowling
Charlotte Bronte
Mary Shelley
Jane Austen
Harper Lee
Louisa May Alcott
Emily Bronte
George Eliot
Toni Morrison
Dorothy Parker
Alice Walker
William Blake
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mark Twain
Ernest Hemingway
Walt Whitman
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare
Emmy Laybourne (my niece)