How will you share YOUR Stories?
Once you start capturing your memories, experiences and creations, you will probably identify some that you want to explore further.
As you develop your ideas, you will want to make some choices about how you will deliver the finished product. Have you always wanted to write a novel? or a play? Or an opera? Or… ? If so, your choice is made. It is already an integral part of your process.
If, however, you are just discovering what it is you want to tell, or you know what you want to tell but not how to do it, this list of possible formats might give you some direction as you begin to develop your narrative.
Making a format choice
How you present your story will depend on many things including:
- Your message, what you want to share
- Your intended audience
- just you
- family and friends
- an interest group like a club or guild
- business clients or partners
- general audience through mass publication
- Your preferred form of creative expression
- Whether you are in the mood to use a format that you have already mastered or try something completely new to you
- Available resources
- Any combination of these or many other possible influences
Some Format Possiblities
- Animation
- Audio recording
- Autobiography
- Ballad
- Ballet
- Biography
- Blank verse poetry
- Blog
- Board game
- Slide show
- Card deck
- Carving
- Chalk drawing
- Choreography
- Cinemagraph
- Class
- Coloring book
- Comic book or series
- Culinary feast
- Digest
- Digital illustration
- Documentary
- Elegy
- Embroidery
- Essay
- Flash fiction (short short story
50-1000/2000 words)
- Free verse
- Graphic novel
- Haiku
- Illustrated story book
- Infographic
- Interactive story
- Interpretive dance
- Interview
- Jigsaw puzzle
- Journal entries
- Lego scene
- Letter to the editor
- Limerick
- Lyric poetry
- Memoir
- Mindmap
- Movement Study
- Movie
- Music – stand alone piece (jazz, classical, hip-hop, raggae, country, folk, traditional…..)
- Musical theater
- Narrative (poem or prose)
- News article (who, what when, where, why, how)
- Novel (scifi, romance, mystery, historical, thriller….)
- Opera
- Opinion piece
- Painting – watercolour, oil, acrylic…
- Pastoral poetry
- Phone app
- Photo essay
- Photograph
- Play
- Poem (rhyming format)
- Postcard
- Script
- Sculpture
- Short story
- Social media post
- Soliloquy
- Sonnet
- Spoken word poetry
- Stained glass display
- Ted Talk
- Textile art
- TV show
- Video game
- Video
- Vlog
- Webinar
- Woodwork
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Storybook image by Tumisu from Pixabay
Fabulous list. I am bookmarking and will share!
Appreciate it. Fun to try and come with a range of possibilities!
What an awesome list! I plan to turn Lia’s Friday Story Time blogs into a book of some sort so she can read them all when she’s 18. Looking at your lit on thinking it would be classified as a documentary story.
Thank you for the comment. Your project sounds very rewarding Could be a documentary for sure. Also might be fun to do as illustrated story book with a Lia drawing for each adventure. Enjoy the process!
Mary Elizabeth, wow! I’m going to share this one around to my writer friends. What a list! Now, ideas on how to file our story ideas? I have been meaning to create a STORIES file, but it hasn’t happened yet. Thanks for a great post!
Thanks for sharing. I admit that I am still playing with my systems for organizing – great idea for a future post. Good luck with the story file.
So many great ideas here. Although I come from a long line of story tellers, writing them down is challenging.
Thanks for commenting. The oral tradition of storytelling is a powerful influence, isn’t it? Capturing in writing a whole different set of skills for sure.