So I'm investing a few months this summer to learn how to become a digital storyteller -- an infinitely great digital storyteller, if I'm going to follow Kurt Vonnegut's brilliant explanation of the Cinderella story arc. (If you haven't seen it, it's worth watching here:)
The Cinderella story arc is the last one Vonnegut draws on his chalkboard. Unlike most narratives that start at a status quo, this one starts at the (ill-fortune) bottom of the graph. That's close to where I am as far as my digital storytelling skills go at the beginning of my summer adventure. In the Cinderella story, things start getting better for Cindy when her fairy godmother shows up. In my story, things started getting better for me when my fairy godprofessor showed up, bringing weekly tasks and tools with him. I expect to get stronger and stronger, week by week.
If I hear the clock chime midnight, it will be while I am working on my final project, juggling tools and trying to produce the most perfect project ever. I'll toil around down there until some friend or classmate tells me that it's great enough, to just let go and post it. Ideally, like Cinderella, I'll be rocketed into Infinite Happiness from there because I will be comfortable enough and skilled enough to build and release the online writing training program I've been working on for too long.
Funny enough, Vonnegut says that although this is the not most common story shape, it is the most profitable. I could be OK with that. (-;