Rick Duchalski

So, here’s the best thing that happened to me this week. A grade two teacher at a nearby school was doing a unit on different celebrations, and she showed her class the YouTube video of my story “Tree”. It’s about a young girl heading home for Hanukkah, but she is being followed by a Christmas…

Hang on tight, because this post is a little bit longer than the others. But it will be worth it, if you want to know how to make a story exciting…. And remember, this post builds on a mini-story we have already introduced, so if it seems confusing, start here. Here we go. In the…

A silly question: What’s a story? Here’s something that we all probably know already: A story has to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Seems pretty straightforward. My dog has fleas. This, this is not a story. It just reports a fact. It just tells me something that is. And maybe I want…

We talk about stories in our house a lot. I don’t mean just telling stories, or reading, or watching movies, and so on. We do that, too. But what I mean is that we talk a lot about the shape of stories, or the way that they are structured, and why. Sometimes I will ask…