Tips for Story Telling
Tips for Story Telling
For this week’s clear English speech coaching, we have a speech tip video below. Also, here are tips for storytelling in a presentation… or conversation.
The hard thing is to begin.
There is a right way and a wrong way to start a story, whether it is an anecdote or a ten-minute story.
- Start at a point in time.
- The most memorable stories in any culture start with some variation of “once upon a time,” the same way a fairy tale begins.
- Describe that point in time.
- Then let it roll.
There is a right way and a wrong way to tell a story:
- Don’t explain the story (wrong way). Re-create it the way it happened (right way).
- Use dialogue.
- Make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, and feel what you felt.
- Make your point, and tie it back to your overall message.
Rerun from 09/30/2013 and 12/16/2016
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