On Storytelling

budi rahardjo
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

Here’s the deal, I want to write stories. All kinds of stories. I want to be a great storyteller, but when I am alone on my desk I just can’t produce anything. I just suck as hell. I write one word or one line and that’s that.

When I am on stage — mostly giving presentation on technologies — I am a different person. I am good. Yes, I am great. People pay to see me on stage. Really. How could that happen?

BR on stage (photo credit: mohamad sani)

So, it got me thinking. Maybe I have to “write” things on stage? Live. And document what I said (or did) later on. I just need to optimize (and capture) that creative process while it’s still burning on stage.

Will experiment this. If I bombed during the presentation, please forgive me. I am just trying to write stories.

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