How to tell a good story: 8 tips for captivating your audience - NPR
WEBApr 28, 2022 · Where were you (physically, mentally, emotionally) in that moment? How did it impact your life? What were the results? Boil your story down to one sentence that helps focus what it's really about.
How Stories Connect And Persuade Us: Unleashing The Brain …
WEBApr 11, 2020 · The power of shared storytelling to soothe or spur us to action may be more crucial than ever, scientists say. Here's what happens in the brain when we feel swept away by a story, book or film.
The Powerful Reason You Should Tell Your Story - The Write …
WEBToday's post is going to be a little different. Instead of focusing on the mechanics of writing, I'm going to dive into something more important: you need to tell your story. Here's why.
How to get started documenting stories from your life
WEBJul 13, 2023 · Every family has stories to tell. Here's how to document yours. Draft an outline. Consider your outline to be a map of your story. Start by freewriting all of the personal, meaningful anecdotes...
Why Storytelling Is a Pillar of a Meaningful Life
WEBJul 6, 2022 · Listening to others’ stories helps us tell our own stories in new ways. Storytelling is one of the pillars of building a meaningful life because stories are, at heart, about meaning and...
We Must Tell Our Stories - The Atlantic
WEBApr 30, 2012 · The mission was republishing African-American authors whose work had long gone out of print. These were our stories. You can weigh the value of them however you wish.
How to Tell a Great Story: Learn Science of Storytelling
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Think of telling a story as making a movie inside your audience’s head. Instead of using voiceover (no pictures) or montage (brief, not very descriptive pictures), tell your story in action scenes. Get granular with the detail.
Harold R. Johnson on How We Tell Our Own Stories
WEBOct 24, 2022 · We are all story. We are the stories we are told and we are the stories we tell ourselves. To change our circumstances, we need to change our story: edit it, modify it, or completely rewrite it. You have your lifestory.
How to Tell a Story Effectively: 7 Storytelling Tips
WEBSep 7, 2021 · As a writer, developing your storytelling skills and learning how to spin your own experiences into a story takes practice, but there are tried and true methods of improving your craft.
Why Telling Our Own Story Is So Powerful for Black Americans
WEBFeb 27, 2019 · We heard storytelling from Stacy Abrams, the African-American woman who made a run for the office of Governor of Georgia and lost. She told the story not of her loss, but of why she has to keep on going to address voter suppression and why it matters for us and our children.