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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

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Some Format Possiblities

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1. Animation
2. Audio recording
3. Autobiography
4. Ballad
5. Ballet
6. Biography
7. Blank verse poetry
8. Blog
9. Board game
10. Slide show
11. Card deck
12. Carving
13. Chalk drawing
14. Choreography
15. Cinemagraph
16. Class
17. Coloring book
18. Comic book or series
19. Culinary feast
20. Digest
21. Digital illustration
22. Documentary
23. Elegy
24. Embroidery
25. Essay
26. Flash fiction (short short story
    50-1000/2000 words)

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27. Free verse
28. Graphic novel
29. Haiku
30. Illustrated story book
31. Infographic
32. Interactive story
33. Interpretive dance
34. Interview
35. Jigsaw puzzle
36. Journal entries
37. Lego scene
38. Letter to the editor
39. Limerick
40. Lyric poetry
41. Memoir
42. Mindmap
43. Movement Study
44. Movie
45. Music – stand alone piece (jazz, classical, hip-hop, raggae, country, folk, traditional…..)
46. Musical theater
47. Narrative (poem or prose)
48. News article (who, what when, where, why, how)
49. Novel (scifi, romance, mystery, historical, thriller….)

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50. Opera
51. Opinion piece
52. Painting – watercolour, oil, acrylic…
53. Pastoral poetry
54. Phone app
55. Photo essay
56. Photograph
57. Play
58. Poem (rhyming format)
59. Postcard
60. Script
61. Sculpture
62. Short story
63. Social media post
64. Soliloquy
65. Sonnet
66. Spoken word poetry
67. Stained glass display
68. Ted Talk
69. Textile art
70. TV show
71. Video game
72. Video
73. Vlog
74. Webinar
75. Woodwork

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