Our topic for this month is “what lessons I’ve learned from other story-telling genres.” Ummmmmmmm. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. I haven’t a clue how to discuss this.

What are other story-telling genres? Video? Audio? Verbal? Generational? Correspondence? Email? Text message? Anecdotal?

I have tried to incorporate some of those methodologies into my writing. I have a story about a small town. I began telling it from the son’s point of view, but to give a more complete picture, I alternated chapters with the father’s point of view in response to what the son had written. I intended it to be a fictional story told in memoir style. I had a few beta readers take a look at it, and what came back was it was a nice character sketch. Hmmm. I guess I failed there.

I had another tech geek story where my team worked remotely from each other, so when they were doing that, the story was told in the form of chat messages. Beta readers told me that didn’t work either. Another failure.

I have a first person story told by a bear trying to adjust to living among humans. Again. Not cutting it. Failure for now.

I’ve read a story based upon correspondence. I thought it was an okay method for getting the story out.

I’m not sure if the lessons I’m learning from these other genres are helping me be a better story teller or not. So far, I seem to be falling short of my goal.