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Setting the story free: Words as worldstuff

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

A few years back, after attending a local storytelling festival, I wondered in this post what would happen if I released a story into public domain.  I resolved to work up the nerve to let go what some might imagine to be my intellectual property, to “breathe it out” into the common atmosphere, where anybody [...]

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August is people month on WIZ

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

I’ve decided to officially declare August Homo narrans month on WIZ.  Throughout the month, I’ll post narrative prose and poetry that’s people-centric in nature.  Homo narrans (”storytelling man”) is John D. Niles’ provocative turn on our self-assigned scientific designation Homo sapien:
Only human beings possess this almost incredible cosmoplastic power, or world-making ability… Through storytelling, an otherwise unexceptional biological species [...]

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