Ira Glass on Storytelling
» S.D. Smith

Ira Glass of This American Life has some fascinating thoughts on the building blocks of good storytelling. I found this very helpful, and inspiring. His remarks on failure are particularly useful (in parts 1 and 3), whatever kind of work you’re doing.

Here’s parts 2, 3 and 4.

HT: Brannon McAllister

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2 Responses to “Ira Glass on Storytelling”

• Karisa Says:
  April 20th, 2010 at 8:42 pm

  This is a good find. Thanks for sharing, Sam.

  And that is NOT how I thought Ira Glass would look.
• S.D. Smith Says:
  April 20th, 2010 at 10:59 pm

  I’m glad you enjoyed it, Karisa!

  Some keen stuff.

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