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Saturday, October 5, 2019

What is Storytalking?

Storytalking is a blog about storytelling.

To be clear: it is not a blog where stories will be told. It is a blog wherein we will discuss how humans tell stories, stories in all of their varied forms.

My name is Tom Hoefner. I’m a playwright, a teacher, a theater director, a novelist... a husband, a father, a brother, a son, a friend... a carbon-based lifeform, an American citizen, a lapsed Catholic, a basic white guy, a 40 year-old, a cat owner, a stay-at-home dad... and yes, I'm also a storyteller.

And I’m also a fan. Of stuff. Lots of stuff. Primarily, stuff through which stories are told: theater, comic books, video games, professional wrestling, professional sports, movies, music, television, books, etc., etc., all of which are but a few of the mediums that human beings, over the course of our existence on this planet, have adapted into mediums for storytelling.

We, as a species, need stories. Like oxygen, water, and nourishment. Stories feed the mind. We live an existence of chaos and disorder, of illogic and poor reasoning. Things happen in this world, good things, bad things, every-thing... and we are obsessed, as a species, with figuring out, “why?” even though the answer to that question is so very often, “why not?”

Our answer to a world where meaning is hidden and disorder reigns, has been for eons to create alternate realities where life has purpose and events unfold in a clear, cause-and-response, neat and orderly fashion.

We tell stories.

And this blog is a place where we’re going to talk about them.

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