Storytelling
Don’t Tire Your Audience with a 100lb Suitcase Story
You could crush an audience with the words of a 100lb suitcase story. A 100lb suitcase story is a story that has excessive detail and information to a point where a listener cannot unpack everything said keep track of everything happening in the story. The verbal weight of these kind of stories compress or conceals…
Read MoreShow More in Your Stories by Making Montages
You can delight and engage your audience when you keep your stories moving along with a pithy and pictorial technique called the story montage. What is the Story Montage The story montage is a series of quick images. For example, “Mike operated a cutting torch gloveless and shirtless, welded with a sleeveless shirt and cutoff…
Read MoreDon’t Give Your Audience Indigestion with Hotdog Stories
A hotdog story is story that has bits and pieces smashed together. Much like hotdogs, a listener doesn’t know what’s in your story. These kinds of stories mix a mess of non-story ingredients with the ‘story’ which makes the story difficult to find. The speaker sounds jumbled and the audience gets lost in the verbal…
Read MoreStay Away From Telling Trampoline Stories
Stay Away From Telling Trampoline Stories If you tell a trampoline story to your audience they will remember you for all the wrong reasons. A trampoline story is a story that lacks direction and jumps all over the place. These kinds of stories are difficult to follow, make a speaker sound like an incompetent storyteller,…
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