Here’s our Story Starter. This is the beginning of a story created during the summer of 2024. It was invented by several groups of storytellers who added their ideas about what the characters might do (events), places for the story to happen (the setting), and some ‘out-of-the-blue’ ideas too. Because it’s not finished, this story is called a ‘work in progress’. It is still a rough sketch that needs to be explored, developed, refined and edited many times before it’s ready to be published. In the process, some very good ideas and interesting characters will be returned to the ever-flowing creative river for use in a later story.

If you’d like to help, listen to the StorieRising podcast and follow along as we develop the Story Starter into a book for publication. You’ll find a place to share your ideas at the bottom of this page as well as on episode pages linked in each podcast.

To read the Story Starter, scan through the slides or download a pdf copy of your own (below).