Playing With Stories: Story crafting for storytellers, writers, teachers and other imaginative thinkers

It has not been easy to value play. Mainstream culture urges us to rush and finish what we are working on to quickly advance to the next task at hand. Too often we must punch our time clock forward without much consideration. As the minutes and hours move, we indirectly communicate both to ourselves and the world no time remains to play; we must work.

Despite that the world around me does not value play, in my creative life, play is necessary. In fact, I have discovered it is the real wor...