Mine Your Life for Stories
If you feel like you’ve exhausted all the good stories from your life, Matthew Dicks, author of Storyworthy, has a fun way to dig deeper and mine your life for stories. It’s called First, Last, Best, Worst.
You start with a topic, and then go through your first, last, best, and worst to see if any good stories come to mind. His main examples are
Kiss
Car
Pet
Trouble
Injury
Gift
Travel
Most of us could fill out our first, last, best, and worst of those. But if you want to mine deeper, throw out completely random topics. Maybe things like
Socks
Marker
Water
Jump
Snickers
You may not have anything in mind for first, last, best, or worst experience with socks, but every piece of dirt isn’t going to have a diamond in it. That’s just the reality of mining. Hi HOOOOOOOO.
POLL: Are Books Superior?
It’s pretty widely accepted that you can brag about how many books you read but not about how much TV you watch. Even listening to podcasts is a tier above watching TV.
If you read one book per week or more, people bow to you. You are considered some kind of savant, maven, polymath (or another pretentious word readers use).
But don’t we need context? Is reading really better than watching TV? Both things are inherently sedentary, and there are plenty of books that are just fun/mindless stories. So, does it matter how you consume a story?
Danny Devito has some pretty strong opinions on this.
That leads us to our first official TTAS poll.
Which Team Are You On?
Team Devito
Team Matilda
Obit of the Week
It’s not uncommon for some adults to write their own obit, but it’s something different when a kid does. This is a tiny bit of a downer, but worthwhile.
Funerals are sad. I want five bouncy houses.
—Garrett “Boofias”
Thanks for reading,
Braden