Category Archives: Storytelling

Syncretics

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Call it a wheel and it moves. It appears in the literature in the mid 1990s where its motion is more stationary and map-like. It is a simple, concrete map that helps people decipher parts of their being and points … Continue reading →

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Out of Storage

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Notes to Laurie Anderson Homeland MEETING THE TUVANS. After the show the Tuvans were packing their instruments and then they started to walk off into the night. “Hey! Where are you going?” I shouted out into the darkness. As it … Continue reading →

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Writing Face Painting

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Malinda Lo. Ash. There’s a scene where daughter and mother are preparing for festivities. It involves costuming and the application of make-up. And of course questions. “But how will I know if I see a fairy?” Ash asked again. “If … Continue reading →

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Push Pull

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Francois Lachance

A character with the same name as the author observes I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. And one day while you were doing that you felt something pushing back. Stephen King Song of … Continue reading →

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Lists Become Plot Lines

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Insurgent, the film adaptation of the second novel in the Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth impressed me by the enchaînement of the sequence of trials by simulation. The progress through the factions (societal divisions similar to clans): dauntless, candor, abnegation, … Continue reading →

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Contentions

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Francois Lachance

I contend that fundamental to human interaction is narration: attentiveness to how stories are related. Stories are for sorting and storing. A while ago (1996), I explored recursivity and narrativity. My starting point was the ability to ask questions (and … Continue reading →

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The Insomnia of Masters, Slaves, Others

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Idolatry. Fable in fable. Max and the Cats. Moacyr Scliar. The third person narrator provides a short aside about a secondary character. It is an aside that is analogous to the way in which the reader-writer relationship is fashioned in … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 19, 2010 by Francois Lachance

FIRST TIGER Alexander McCall Smith, “The Unfortunate Fate of Kitty da Silva” in One City (in support of Edinburgh’s OneCity Trust) This fictional tiger makes its way at the end of the story into the dialogue of two characters and … Continue reading →

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Reordering: Crossing Open Ground

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Francois Lachance

I once copied out and added line endings to a passage from Crossing Open Ground — Barry Lopez writes in “Landscape and Narrative” Inherent in story is the power to reorder a state of psychological confusion through contact with the … Continue reading →

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Affect Generation

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Francois Lachance

In my copy of Barry Lopez Crossing Open Ground there is a yellow sticky commenting on this passage dealing with the effects of shared storytelling. I felt exhilaration, and a deeper confirmation of the stories. The mundane tasks which awaited … Continue reading →

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