Lit.

lit most generally applies to my interest in stories and how they work.

what leads this interest is my belief that stories are very valuable when they affect people. this has professional applications in creative industries, marketing, activism, entrepreneurship and business development, with each requiring knowledge of how to effectively create an affective story.

some guiding questions: what are affective stories? what do they effect? what makes them effective? if only effective in one group, why not in another? what is effective in both groups? in 3, 4, 5, 6, different groups? who do I want to effect?

my degree in Lit at Duke concentrated on global culture and theory. I sought to better understand global cultural, social and intellectual differences and theoretical methods of this interpretation. my desired (and I think somewhat achieved) outcome was new ways of seeing and reading stories beyond my current bias, instead taking on frameworks that could be applied to newer creative channels, effectively increasing affective groups.

the knowledge I’ve gained from this approach has been constantly applied via short stories that I create. I typically apply these in two categories: professional and creative. for the former, my professional stories are often related to marketing content, effecting more groups to spread brand awareness. it has also been very literally applied in creative narrative industries such as film development, game development and publishing.

creatively, I find that I can be more eccentric and have more freedom to experiment with affective stories. i’ve experimented making stories in as many mediums as possible. visual media is usually effective to more people, so I create most my stories in the short film medium. of course, written, game and artistic mediums are also great, and I’ve spent considerable time in these mediums as well. always, my experimentations attempt to push the boundary of what I already know. recently, I’ve been caught up on work in all of the above, sort of, but not really.