{"id":42,"date":"2017-04-05T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hochschulwettbewerb.net\/wissenschaftliche-kurzgeschichten\/?p=42"},"modified":"2017-04-05T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:11:00","slug":"the-value-of-stories-a-workshop-with-jose-paniagua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hochschulwettbewerb.net\/201617\/wissenschaftliche-kurzgeschichten\/2017\/04\/05\/the-value-of-stories-a-workshop-with-jose-paniagua\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Stories: A workshop with Jose Paniagua"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 7th<\/sup> February we had the pleasure of welcoming Jose Paniagua<\/strong><\/a>, professional storywriter and storyteller, to run a workshop for us on the value of stories.<\/p>\n

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What we often fail to remember is that we tell stories all the time. Recalling your day for a partner, speaking with friends about a recent holiday or what you did over the weekend. Asking the group to write one word they would associate with stories (responses included adventure, fantasy, inspiration and message) reminded us a that a story is many things.<\/p>\n

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Jose explaining to the workshop the different type of stories<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But in general stories, in particular fairytales, are created with the same basic ingredients. Vladimir Propp found 31 functions of a fairytale, that he termed the Morphology of the Folktale<\/a>. Your hero leaves the on a journey, encounters a hard-ship or a villain, villain tries and fails to interdict hero reaching his goal and so on and although not all 31 functions are necessarily present in a story, they always follow in numerical order. Or fantastic binomial (example here<\/a>) by Gianni Rodari, whereby you pick two unrelated words or things and create a story from that. Another one we explored ourselves was \u2018Cards of Fantasy\u2019. We all thought of a character, object or place beginning with each letter of our name. Bringing these seemingly un-related things together, we all managed to write a short story in just 20 minutes!<\/p>\n

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an example of the ‚Chrissie‘ short story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other types of stories we learnt about were accumulation stories (\u2018The House that Jack Built<\/a>\u2019<\/strong> is a classic example of this) that are really popular with younger readers and circular stories, were the story always returns to the initial situation.<\/p>\n

We also learnt about the intrinsic value of stories. They often have implicit values such as team-work, solidarity or tolerance. Some of the values we thought might come<\/p>\n

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leonardo hard at work on his short story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

into our stories for this particular project would be ecology or conservation. Jose brought a bag full of books that we could look through for good examples of these methods in practice.The workshop gave us a lot to think about and Jose taught us some great ways to get story writing. Lets get writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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