by Bill Wren on June 16, 2011
Rather than write yet again about stories, I thought I would tell a little story. This was actually written and posted about six years ago on another, now defunct blog. It is about the human condition … One day there was something wrong with my butt. It was remarkably itchy. But what can you do? [...]
by Bill Wren on December 23, 2010
Content has a problem and it is easily stated: I have no interest in it. I don’t believe many do and, of those who are interested in it, they aren’t interested in content but in what it can do for them. I don’t want to read or watch content. A movie? Yes. A video? Yes. [...]
by Bill Wren on November 22, 2010
Not a day goes by where we don’t see tweets and post headlines telling us “you must” or “you need” and similar dogmatic injunctions. Is it because we like being told what to do? Is it because the authors are megalomaniacs? No. We write headlines like these because the statistics tells us they work. Does [...]
by Bill Wren on November 11, 2010
I think a good argument could be made for The Odyssey being the most influential work in western literature. The story of Odysseus’ return home from the Trojan War is certainly one of my favourite works. I’m posting this to recommend this link: Back From War, but Not Really Home I had never thought of [...]
by Bill Wren on November 1, 2010
Two words pop up in most dictionary definitions of the word story: people and events. Most of those definitions also include a word or phrase such as “the telling of,” or “the relating of.” So what we have is: people events telling One word is missing because it is implied. There is no purpose to [...]
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