Posts Tagged ‘story construction’
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 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…
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