Ruth Livingstone’s published work
Paralympic Torch Relay
BT has launched its public nomination process for the Paralympic Torch Relay, giving you the chance to carry the flame in August ahead of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. If you’d like to submit your team of five, or nominate a team who you think are worthy of the honour, then visit http://www.btlondon2012.co.uk/torch-form.php to get more details and to apply online.
Nominations close on 20th January 2012.
Yes, my first ‘story’ is up on the Olympic Storyteller site.
‘But that’s not a “story”!’ I hear you cry. No, this is not a work of fiction. And, making a wild guess here, I reckon that BT are not sponsoring us Olympic Storytellers because they wanted prize-winning fiction writers. No, they are after ‘stories’ that relate to, or comment on, the events surrounding the London 2012 Olympics.
Thinking of the stories I wanted to tell, I decided to ………
(Go on. Read what I decided to do here. And don’t forget to hit the [like] button. Thank you.)
Well, Jonathan Brownlee chose one of my questions to answer. Yippee!
The question he chose to answer was:
If you could choose your own theme music for the medal podium, what would you choose and why?
Err, hang on. Did he really answer my question?
Sort of.
Maybe.
Actually no.
No, he didn’t really answer my question. But I forgive him. He chose the national anthem after all.
Personally, I would go for something like this: Hawaii Five O.
You could choose Chariot’s of Fire, but this is too predictable.
Given Jonathan’s possible film ambitions, maybe he should choose 007 – licensed to thrill.
You can find the questions and answers here on the BT Storytellers website
The official BT Olympic Storytellers site is now live, along with details of all the storytellers. They look an intelligent and talented bunch of people. I have no idea what I am doing among them.
Here is my page. I look a little stern. And somewhat confused.
Twitter is beginning to wake up to the fact we have Olympic Storytellers among the Twitterati. There seems a confusion of hashtags to follow, but the official ones appear to be:
#ldn2012story
#London2012
#btstorytellers
Personally, I prefer #olympicstorytellers – because what you see is what you get. But Twitter has a life of its own and defies all attempts at logical organisation (thank goodness). We will see what trends emerge.
My first task, as an Olympic Storyteller, was to think of 3 questions to ask the triathlete Brownlee brothers – both of whom have medal chances in the 2012 Olympics.
In the end, I thought of dozens of questions; some boring and sensible, some completely ridiculous. But I could only choose three and one had to relate to the 2012 Olympics.
Well, these were the questions I finally submitted to the Brownlee Brothers.
Here are my questions for the Brownlee brothers:
1) In preparing for the Olympics, what is the most important piece of advice that Alistair could give his younger brother, Jonny?
2) If you could be a character from fiction, who would you be?
3) If you could choose your own theme music for the medal podium, what would you choose and why?
Will my questions be chosen? I don’t know. But I look forward to seeing what others submitted and, of course, reading the answers.
Ruth Livingstone 