Storytelling Up.

I went to see Pixar's Up with my wife and kids the other day, turns out it's a fun film and a great story. Go figure, Pixar...

The people at Pixar are masters of storytelling. From the thoughtful shorts to the depth ridden feature lengths you're given something remarkable every time. And here's what I've noticed. There is no one single Pixar storyteller on any given film but rather a system of storytelling teams.

Practitioners of collective dreaming, communal ideation and collaborative story creation. Believers in sharing.

How often do we try to write ourselves through life on our own?

Self-dependent. Even those accompanied by faith.

Attempting to produce a dream without a dream team.

A few friends and I started a group recently to take on communal story writing for our lives. We're not all from the same background, club, church, sport, school, etc...but therein lies the value, in the difference.

Different but in common.

I think we can all find people like that to write with.