Continuous Storytelling: In the conventional game, a person starts with, “Once upon a time there was a princess” or In this version you start out, “Once upon a time there was a ( ) who came from (fill in place)The story then must go on to explain how the place name (location) contributed–or didn’t to his or her success. In these troubled times a bit of storytelling and make believe might be stress relieving. Pick your own character and place, or use one of mine.
I did something like that with the input of three people who emailed me and made comments. Using their comments I made “Oscar” into a story. Their where three turnaround points where readers could have picked a different direction. Not getting them, I went ahead with my own.
environmentalist, Seattle WA
politician, WA DC
banker, Wall street NY
horticulturist, Santa Cruz CA (or gardener) EXAMPLE:
I must explain this insipid beginning as there is a bit of history there. My parents named me Herb and I was a Senf Meaning mustard, so Herb Mustard was doomed from the get go. Then I moved to a town called Sequim, pronounced like Sequin. Go figure?
The first commentator gets to choose the character, place and story beginning.
‘Thou should not judge each day by the harvest you reap … but by the seeds you plant!’ Robert Louis Stevenson
Herb Senft 2014