The Art of Storytelling(Week 1)

     

    I use storytelling quite a bit in my average day to day activities. It just works for many of the things I do. Most classes I have can work with writing or telling some form of story. For example, this class has me writing this here blog for part of my grade. Now, I can just phone it in and write just a quick and simple paragraph or few sentences. I'd rather not though. A blog is just another medium for telling a story, and that is what I intend to try and use this space for. I'm a storyteller at heart, and I'm not a fan of just writing some lifeless paper or post to just get my points and go.

    That is where my hobby of story driven board games comes in to help me out. One game in particular is Dungeons & Dragons

    I use Dungeons & Dragons as a medium to let my creative spirit flow and bolster my story creation skills as a whole. I can't just say , "Oh yeah. This happened here, so go here now." I have to make it interesting. One part of making a fantasy setting interesting, is by using the rules and that world and making the story believable, and to persuade the other players into following along. I bring this up, because the main topic now in class is rhetoric and persuasion. Like how I have to write about how an author got their point across via pathos, I too have to do the same in a story when setting the mood for a game. By showing how the logic of an article makes sense given how the world worked at the time of its conception, I too have to make the plot and story make sense given the lore of the world or its mechanics.

    My storytelling adventure games aren't just some time waster or thing I do to pass time with friends. My skills with being able to tell a story shines through in papers as well, because I can't just have a bland and uninspired paper turned in. I have to make it look and sound good. Sure I still have a ways to go, but I will get their eventually. I just have to take it one paper, and one roll of the dice at a time.