Some help understanding how to story map.
Hi, so I am 5 time published poet and short story author. I would love to start to create my own book. So far I have a pretty good charter line up. I have a ton of short stories and poems that I would love to insert into this book more as a dialogue, even if that means breaking some of them up but I would love to have some excerpts as content in this piece. Here's a short excerpt of what i would love to be the ending. Could someone help me be able to understand how to story map so I can actually get the ball rolling. Any and all comments appreciated.
" Yea, I know I'm quiet all the time- It's better for my soul. Allows me to take in more information. Helps me learn from the action and words that never match up with body language. The chaos that is all around us never has to be spoken about, it only needs to be felt to be fully learned. That’s the issue though, for one to use their voice to tell stories, they have to be able to tell what the other is feeling. It’s about as fool proof as figuring out where a cloud will form with your bare eyes. It is something that you cannot learn unless you lay out in the grass for months and months on end. If you're lucky you'll get a shape or two right, but never where a cloud will form out of a clear blue sky. For that is not in any one being’s control. The only thing that is in your control is where you are, and how you feel about it. Do you feel the soft grass itching your neck, elbows, and calves? Do you hear the birds shrieking cries in the emerald canopy that lie behind you? How does the sun feel on your face, the ants on your feet? What were you thinking while staring up into the backwards sea, knowing in a couple of hours you will be left in the dark once again? If you cannot express all feelings other than the excitement of being listened to, then your story will never have a clear meaning. Your excitement will dampen the emotions. The pain, exhaustion, sacrifice- never being felt by the listener, only ever felt within your scrambled memories. For you to be truly listened to you must shred all being of embarrassment for just a moment, and truly relive and feel everything that you did in that moment. Even if judgment comes, that isn’t what you were looking for in the first place. You were in search of an adventure, a beautiful forest, a fallen tree that has been overgrown, or a story of someone else’s. So learn to share not just a memory but how you felt in that time, even if not in words then in body and soul. Sharing that feeling can teach a person more than a 1000 years of studies and how to overcome any hardship...."