Beginning Reflections on the Art of Digital Storytelling

“Stories move in circles. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories, and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And part of the finding is getting lost. And when you’re lost, you start to look around and listen.”
- Corey Fischer, Albert Greenberg, and Naomi Newman, from: A Travelling Jewish Theatre from Coming from a Great Distance, excerpted from Writing for Your Lifeby Deena Metzger

This quote begins the preface of the Digital Storytelling Cookbook by Joe Lambert. Having just returned from Philly and an incredible hands-on training in the subject, I’ve been mulling over not only the importance of stories and personal voice, but also the ways in which we approach narrative.