 It was my first job, and it is the toolbox I keep going back to all the time. Honestly, I don't want to sound too grand about it, talking about being a storyteller, but really that job was storytelling boot camp. Because we, a very small writing staff, had to take classic novels and break them down into half-hour episodes as seen through the eyes of a Jack Russell Terrier, a dog for kids between the ages of 6 and 11.