by Dave Ursillo | Feb 8, 2023 | Storytelling + Creativity, Writing the Personal
Kathy wrote a tale of an ordinary day when an extraordinary discovery affirmed how important it was for her to do hard things that mattered to her.Jess recalled a memory from long ago when, as a child, she was made to feel invisible in a painful induction of what it...
by Dave Ursillo | Feb 7, 2023 | Storytelling + Creativity, Writing the Personal
“On a Thursday morning in early June,” Kathy wrote, “I was helping my four-year-old daughter get dressed for school.” And so began her story.Kathy was recounting a seemingly ordinary moment, on a quite ordinary day. But as Kathy’s story goes on, something quite other...
by Dave Ursillo | Feb 2, 2023 | Storytelling + Creativity, Writing the Personal
We live in what has been described as the “attention economy.”In the attention economy in which we live, our attention spans — yours and mine — are an increasingly rare and valuable resource.Advertisers need not just our eyes, but our attention, to sell...
by Dave Ursillo | Jan 31, 2023 | Storytelling + Creativity, Writing the Personal
For some, it is a burning tale. For others, a memory suddenly returns to consciousness. And yet for others still, it is an “ordinary” moment in time—seen, captured, storied, made to live on the page—now, made extraordinary, and never to be lost to the churning wheel...