"Macabre of Clandestine" <ghoulie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> from "Joe Platt" <jd_platt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Hello everybody,
>
> Hello Joe,
>
(snip)
> > My name's Joe Platt and I spend much of my time studying dolphins in
the
> > Outer Hebridies (A group of islands off the West Coast of Scotland).
>
> Yes, glad to hear they're still there.
>
I don't want to get too off topic but it sounds like you've had some
expereince of dolphins in the Western Isles.
> > Somewhere along the line while I was up there I fell into
storytelling.
> > Personally I blame Ceilidhes.
>
> ITYM Ceilidhean....
>
> > For those for whom the term is unfamiliar,
> > or who can't decipher my spelling, they're a gaelic
dance/session/party.
> > You're expected to do a turn and in order to avoid inflicting my
singing
> > voice on the ensemble I ended up telling a story <Neil Gaimen's Dream
of
> > a thousand cats>.
>
> A one kilomog dream?
>
:)
(It's a thousand cats dreaming the same dream)
(snip)
> For some strange reason it seems a lot easier on radio. I
> > guess not being able to see your audience actually helps :).
>
> Maybe, but not with the timing, I'd guess.
>
I think its something personal. I'm more experienced with radio
broadcasting than with speaking to an audience so I'm less nervous.
> > Now that's who I am and what I do, so, why am I here?
(snip
> > Many of the ceilidhean I've been to on Eilean fhraoch have featured
> humerous tales (usually untrue) about well-known local characters.
>
That's also true of some of the ceilidhean on Lewis
> > Incidently it's suprisingly hard to find modern authors who write
short
> > story anthologies. I'm very grateful to Stephen King.
>
> How many would you like? How short?
> Shorther than (say) http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/gnu.htm
?
>
My experience is that a short story of about 10 pages will convert into
about 5-10 minutes of spoken word. That will include some compression
and editing of the story.
The stories I've heard tend to be 5-10 minutes in length and although
mine seem to be a little longer (although my perception isn't very
reliable in this cir***stance) they rarely go over 20 minutes in length.
Roughly how long are the stories you tell. Doe anyone tell longer
stories, say 30 or 45 minutes (Bearing in mind that that's the same
length as an episode of ER or West Wing. Will people sit listening for
that long?
> > And that's what people liked. I'm not that bad at telling them but
what
> > got people hooked were the stories. They liked the fact that the story
> > was directed at them as an adult, and they liked the dark, and
slightly
> > disturbing, nature of some of the stories I picked.
>
> Ah. Back to the ghost at Creag a'Bhalaich.........
>
> > Talking to my audience I soon became clear that none of them had heard
> > storytellers telling stories aimed at a mature audience. So, getting
to
> > my point at last, I was wondering if anybody out there told similar
> > stories and whether anyones interested in expanding into this area.
It's
> > real fun even if it's never more than a party trick to entertain your
> > freinds.
>
> Hmmmm. Not lately. They all go down digitally ATM.
>
> But I'll write up the ghost at......... if you like. It's true, BTW. And
> checkable.
Definately sounds like a story I'd be interested in.
>
> > Anyway love to know what you guys think. Please forgive my spelling
and
> > that although I might be able to blather I can't write for squat. Look
> > forward to hearing from you.
>
> Try using your spellcheck? It isn't infallible (and it won't know much
> Gaelic unless you teach it some) but it would pick up on the ones I
> assumed were typos.
>
> > Bye now.
>
> Ciaou.
>
> > P.S. There is one group of professionals who do tell ***y, funny
> > stories. Billy Connolly, Eddie Izzard, Bill Hicks. Some of the best
> > storytellers I've ever heard.
>
> It's a gift, but it has to be worked at.
Thanks very much for your feedback. I should really start posting stuff
on the newsgroups which I've done on Word and then Sepllchecked prior to
pasting it into my message. Inexperience I'm afraid.
You made me think that there's maybe several kinds of stories and with
several potential audiences. The following catagoreis are entirely my
invention (with appropiate film comparisons) but hopefully make sense.
Story A: Aimed at children but with some appeal for adults
(e.g. The Lion King)
Story B. A story with no target audience which both children and adults
will enjoy
(e.g. Lord of the Rings)
Story C. Aimed at adults.
(e.g. Schindler's List)
Obviously stories like this can be enjoyed by children but the
distingui****ng feature is that there is no compromise in the story to
take account of the fact that its audience may include children.
I tend to tell a lot of C stories and some B stories.
'Til I die
Joe
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