NEW STORYTELLING CLASS SEPT-OCT!
More info @ https://bestwritingclassesever.com/
Monday Nights:
September 16, 23, 30, OCT, 7, 14
7-10PM
@ AMAW|LA Studio in Hollywood – $400.00
In this five-week class, Brian Finkelstein will teach you how to write and perform your own stories and/or solo show. You’ll do improvised storytelling drills, learn how to structure and then perform your experiences. Each week you’ll get personal, constructive feedback. By the end of the class, you’ll have written multiple polished essays that you can then submit to magazines and/or use at one of the many storytelling shows around town.
I’ve listened to your single about Amy 300 times on the last 3 years because it’s Real .
Thank you for your Honesty
Thank you for Caring!!!
Me
Atascadero Ca
Wow
Just
Wow
Dear Mr. Finkelstein:
It’s Saturday August 15, 2015, and I just finished listening to your story “Perfect Moments” on my local NPR station. I would like to say that I thoroughly enjoyed listening to your telling of this story, but that it also moved me. By the time the story ended, the tears that had begun welling up in my eyes within the final two minutes had streamed out. Here I was in my bedroom, lazily relaxing in my cool (as in, fresh) apartment, skim-reading through a book my wife had borrowed from the library on the different pioneer trails of the 1800s, and partially listening to you begin your story. As the story progressed, however, my ears more and more tuned in. Though I continued scanning my book, I would chuckle or laugh and smile at some parts as you related it, but finally, I just put the book down and paid better attention. Then you reached the end of the story; I reached for a tissue.
Not only did this story move me, but it also made me think. Thank you for reminding us, and me, that, though our lives may pass through–or even be filled with–many unpleasant times and circumstances, there are still those indeed perfect moments we all experience; though they be short-lived moments, it’s okay, they still count. I wish young Amy would have known that too.
Thank you!
I’m 53, also originally from Queens (Astoria), but I currently reside in Houston.
Listened to your story today on NPR and was very moved. I laughed, I cried, I related–I thankfully stayed on the road.
What a great human being you are–thank you for sharing your story.
Hi Brian, I heard your story on npr today and it really touched me. I broke down in tears at the end of your story. Thank you for your wonderful volunteer work at the suicide hotline.
It’s Sunday, I’m listening to the Moth Radio Hour. Driving home from work at the Suicide Prevention Center and they preview a reading about a Suicide Prevention Center volunteer.
I have heard stand-up comedians talk about calling the Suicide Prevention Center and being put on hold, and becoming suicidal because of the terrible music on the hold path. And I figure it would not hurt to hear that this guy has to say.
Right away from the language he uses, I can tell he really was on the crisis line. He knows what they do in training, he knows the language and the questions we ask. He’s been there.
And I am enjoying his story, parts of it made me smile, and then he starts talking about the girl, and it’s good, but then it isn’t. And I get this heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach and I sit in my car, saying No, No, Please No.
And then I am sitting at a stop sign crying.
Because that is our biggest fear.
Thank you for sharing.
Hi, I just wanted to say that I caught the end of your presentation on the radio while driving in Salt Lake City. I have to say that at first I was confused about the topic, just tuning in and all. I thought that this can’t be about what I think it’s about, as no one talks about suicide in a humourous manner. Well, it was and I was hooked into listening to it all. A couple of things really struck a cord with me, the four questions about suicide and that there are moments of greatness filled in between moments of utter crap. I’ve recently had a very crappy six months, including losing a baby and losing my best friend. Suicide has crossed my mind but I don’t think that I would ever go to that option because of the great moments in between. I wish you success on your tour and I think it’s a vital topic to get to teens especially. Good luck and all the best!
Danielle