On Writing : Storytelling On TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Stretching Creative Juices by Debbie Elicksen

Debbie Elicksen

Storytelling On TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Stretching Creative Juices

I started a storytelling series today and posted the first one on TikTok. I am working on my own creativity, while also giving new writers ideas of stories to write. There was a former educator, and now professional speaker, who drilled into my brain about looking at different perspectives. I think she might have used the example of viewing the world from a woman's purse. What does that purse see, feel, and what does it think about the contents inside.

It reminds me of the book by Richard Adams: Watership Down. It is written from the perspective of rabbits, their viewpoint from the ground, and the names they call things, such as fire sticks for cigarettes. (Not sure if that is the exact phrase as it has been years since I read it.)

So I decided today to make a raw video and post it on TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@debbielelicksen/video/7084342605533760773?is_fro...). Besides exercising my creativity, it also gets me comfortable with stepping out of the interview/workshop format to narrate or do something that might help my novice journey into screenwriting.

The idea was prompted when I watched the replay of International Women's Day 2022: Stage 32 + Female Voices Rock Celebrate Women In Entertainment webinar. One of the guests gave us permission to just shoot and film to practice. Still dusting off the courage on the actual screenplay writing, but I thought this was something I could stretch on.

Karen "Kay" Ross

That is a FANTASTIC idea, Debbie Elicksen, and good for you on jumping in with both feet!

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