“I love stories that immerse me in an unfamiliar world and cause me to see my own world with fresh eyes. Having just read “The Underground Railroad” and “Americanah” in quick succession, my consciousness around race and racism and white privilege has been challenged and stretched. It is a gift to see American culture through the eyes of an immigrant, and to see history as lived by individuals with loves and hopes and ancestors and the surprising ability to endure even the most horrific abuse. This is the power of storytelling.”

Julie Gabrielli, Author and Green Architect

We are Storytellers

02/19/2017The Power of StoryRobin

We feel and think in stories.

Right Yourself through Writing

09/08/2016The Power of StoryRobin

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/09/journaling-can-help-you-out-of-a-bad-mood.html?mid=fb-share-scienceofus

Can you find 10 minutes a day to become a writer?

01/08/2016The Power of StoryRobin

“An illuminating exercise I give my students is to tell them to write for, say, five or ten minutes. And then to count the number of words they’ve written. And to match that number against the number of words a writer like Virginia Woolf penned during a workday. We then figure out how long it would take for us to write a draft, say, of a 60,000 word book if all we ever had was ten minutes a day to write.

We learn that we write more than Woolf did; we learn that if we worked when we could each day, if only for ten minutes, we would eventually produce the draft of a book that, of course, we’d need to revise. We learn that stopping ourselves by telling ourselves that we don’t have enough time is a bogus excuse. We learn that we can find ten minutes by giving up doing something else.” Louise DeSalvo