I love listening to other people's stories too.

Every Day as a Story.

I'm Shannon Kaysen.

I started Every Day as a Story on this homemade podcast feed for a few reasons.

I always hear people say, Shannon, you have so many stories, but nothing ever happens to me.

And I smirk because I don't think much happens to me either, just being real.

It's about perspective and awareness.

I'm a student of writers like Raymond Carver and Philip Roth.

And what's the guy who wrote the road was his name dang was his name McCarthy McCarthy or something you know I'm talking about the guy who wrote the

road name skipped my head and then Walter Mosley I love Walter Mosley and others.

There's many others.

But I remember in one of Walter Mosley's writing books, he was talking about adding pedestrian moments of life into his stories or something like that.

And I love it when I read books and they mention those kind of moments.

Often those are like my favorite moments in the books or interviews or stories that I listen to.

So every day as a story is about finding those moments of meaning in everyday life.

So I have a few rules that I use with these stories.

I have boundaries that spark my creativity.

I like boundaries.

I used to do this show in Chicago called Paper Machete.

And you only had a day to write the story pretty much.

And then you go on stage.

So it was like a boundary that would spark my creativity.

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