IN THIS ISSUE:
- Story Summary: Scrambled Eggs
- How to Find the Story’s Voice
- “Squirrely Shirley Meets Fry-Fry”
- Useful Links
- Story to Tell: “Scrambled Eggs”
A farmer once took his cattle to market and stopped at an inn for the night. In the morning he had scrambled eggs for breakfast. Since he didn’t have enough money to pay for the meal, the innkeeper agreed to wait for payment until the farmer had sold his cattle. The farmer took a shortcut home from the market, forgetting about his debt until he passed by the inn many months later. When he went to settle the account, the innkeeper demanded five hundred dollars, saying that the ten eggs the farmer ate could have become chickens, and each of those chickens would have produced many eggs for him to sell. The farmer refused to pay the stated sum, so a court date was set. The farmer found a young lawyer to represent him. On the morning of the hearing, his lawyer was late. The angry judge demanded to know why the lawyer was not on time. The lawyer said it took him a lot longer than he thought it would to boil up the bags of corn to plant in his field. The judge asked the lawyer if he believed cooked corn would grow into a crop. The lawyer said that if scrambled eggs could grow into chickens, anything is possible. The judge fined the greedy innkeeper one hundred dollars to be divided equally between the farmer and his lawyer.

When I am trying to find the story’s voice – the best approach for me to tell it – I often explore what it might sound like if told from a different point of view. How would this story sound if it were told by the innkeeper, the lawyer, the judge, the farmer’s wife or a member of the community? This is also a great way to help remember the progression of a story and “see” it in your mind’s eye as you share it with an audience.
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Story to Tell:
“Scrambled Eggs”
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