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Field Notes for Storytellers: Research, Security, and the Archival Muse fills a wide gap in storytelling instruction by helping you organize and conduct the research that underpins the stories you tell. There are four modules in the course, and each of them draws upon my experience as a storyteller, a folklorist, a doctoral researcher of ethically sensitive topics, and the CEO of a technology company.
Greetings, and mòran taing for taking the time to read my newsletter. This is the March 2026 edition of Folkbyte, and I'm writing it while I record poor VHS audio (the video has degraded) of a 1980s UK TV production about stone circles, people who paint their experiences with extraterrestrial orgies, and mail-order medical maggot kits. I think I've reached peak folklorist.
Dispatches from the Word Mines
I'll be finishing the "Ritual" chapter of The Storyteller's Guide to Folklore in the next few days, but I first wrote about ritual as a folklore genre in the November 2019 edition of the Folklore & Fiction dispatch and podcast series.
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