
Matthew Dicks: Crafting a Story ("News of Divorce")
Speak Up Storytelling
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The Importance of Now in Storytelling
"I'm constantly refining essentially what I'm doing now is just creating bones for the story and then I can disassemble those bones," he says. "The two of them are having an affair in less than a week this man who purports to be a social worker will be in my mother's bed and my father will not be here anymore that's a pretty good place to maybe put that surprise so my mother says it's no one's fault but I will soon find out that that is not true", Matt writes about his parents' divorce. He adds: "A very important word in storytelling for now is the idea that everything I am saying is probably not as good as it could
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