Hello novice and expert storytellers!
Welcome to my progress blog in the Art of Storytelling II at the South Mountain Storytelling Institute taught by Liz Warren. There are ten of us, all eager to perfect our story telling techniques, to increase our storytelling confidence and to develop a personal statement about the type of storyteller we want to be. With a detailed nine page syllabus we are not likely to go astray. Our first goal is to identify what type of storyteller we are.
Based on my past experience, I am focusing on stories by and about African Americans, stories from the Bible, and stories from Asian culture. It’s difficult to choose, because there are so many beautiful stories to share and tell. The main thing I want is to use the story platform to entertain, teach a lesson, inform the audience, and to incite the listener to visualize what they are hearing.
What I took away from the first class:
- The more you tell stories, the more comfortable you will be.
- The more you know your audience, the more comfortable you are addressing them.
- The more you tell a specific story, the more familiar you are with the story and the more natural you can tell the story.
“No story lives unless someone wants to listen” J.K.Rowling
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