storyteller

The Bent Wheat Daily
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September 27, 2001

And isn’t it just amazing?I was listening to a radio program last night whose guest was a writer by the name of David Hagberg that wrote a book titled “Joshua’s Hammer.” What is amazing about this writer is that the book is all about Osama Bin Laden and his organization, and also our organizations like the CIA. And the fictionalized events in his book, that he wrote a year ago, are happening right now. And isn’t it just amazing?And yes it is just amazing. It is amazing from my own personal level, because I had just written a story that I wasn’t comfortable with, and I thought there must be a better way to explain my story, because it just didn’t say what I wanted it to say. So I re-wrote it, which I don’t do often. And I was scratching my head, trying to think of a way to explain it better with movies, because it is so easy to use a movie moment to recapture a feeling or emotion or idea. A moment from a popular movie is very much like a shared dream we all had. Like we all have experienced that particular situation, and can recall it on a multi-level basis because we lived it like a dream. And now we’re living it like reality. So following my impulses, I got up from my very comfortable chair, went to the store and bought a DVD of the movie Contact, so that I could listen to the director’s comments. Now listening to the audio over comments on a DVD will make an entire movie become multi-level. One is in the mind of the actor or director and can hear how the movie was constructed, and which parts or scenes are of special importance to them. And it will change that scene for you, because you know more about it. Like it was very difficult to produce, or it didn’t come out like they wanted so they changed it in the computer, or there was some idea that was intended, and the director will explain the storyline in more detail. And that explain the storyline in more detail, is like the difference between the book and the movie. And you know how it is different when you read a book you really like, and then see the movie, and how disappointing that may be, because it just doesn’t live up to your image? You are experiencing that movie on a multi-level.Anyway, before I get off track. So I’m listening to the director’s comments audio over the movie Contact, and I get a little bored with it. I look at the clock, and it says 11:11, which is now the magic number for me, I think it says, “change.” So I turn on the radio, which I’ve also been bored with lately, and low and behold, there is exactly what I wish to hear in that moment. And isn’t that just amazing?What I heard was this writer, David Hagberg say, “Hey guys, this is just a story that I made up. I’m a writer, I look at everything as being a story.” And I’m saying to myself,“Yeah, yeah, you must be a speaker with a big Ilda splash.” The storytellers. How we love the storytellers. The host of the radio program loves the storytellers, and quotes them often, looking up to them as being prophetic, like Authur C. Clark of 2001 fame. Or here is another one, Tom Clancy, who wrote a novel in 1994 titled“Debt Of Honour”, which describes how a Japanese pilot crashes a 747 into the US Capitol buildings killing the president and most of his cabinet. And isn’t it just amazing?And yes it is just amazing. A storyteller sees everything in its basic elements. The antagonist, the protagonist, and the crisis. The storyteller sees the problem, whatever it is, on a multi-level basis, and the fiction storyteller will manipulate the story anyway he or she wishes. Normally there is a kernel of truth that a storyteller will heat up and make into delightful popcorn, and then the popcorn will go to the movies. We’ll eat the popcorn, while living the movie, and then, and this is the important part…ta…da…we pop the movie into reality. And isn’t it just amazing? ~ lfdeale

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