Over the next few weeks, I plan on having a series of post that features tips and thoughts about being a storyteller. I’ll ask the oral storytelling community thoughts about storytelling, make a list based on the answers, and share that with as many people as possible.

Why do that?

I got to thinking: How much further could we advance storytelling across the society if we shared key things to know about storytelling? I don’t have all the answers, but I know groups of people across the world that probably do.

Here’s what I would like for you to do:

  1. Answer as many of the questions below has you would like.
  2. Add your name and where you would like people to follow you/contact you to learn more about you.
  3. Send what you have to me by 13 Mar at storiesjokesandfolks@gmail.com

The questions:

  • What’s the one tip you give to new storytellers?
    • For any genre of storytelling
    • Can be about storytelling, the business of storytelling, whatever. Think of something that you would have liked to know when you were starting out.
  • What’s your one tip for practicing to deliver a story?
    • How do you get ready? Is there a warm-up you do? Where to you practice your story? Who gives you feedback? How do you know when your story is ready to be told on a stage?
  • What’s your one tip for finding stories to tell?
    • This can be from telling personal stories to finding folktales, historical stories, and more. Whatever your genre of storytelling happens to be.
  • What is one way you use storytelling?
    • Are you passing on history? Bring light to a serious issue? Just trying to get people to laugh? Are you suing stories in writing books, plays, movies, tv shows?

I am so looking forward to sharing what you send! Thanks for helping people to share their story on purpose.

Published by Nick Baskerville

After years of being an instructor in the military and the and the fire service, I realized I needed to improve my delivery. My students needed me to improve delivery. But how do I improve my delivery? Simple. I finally took a member of Toastmasters up on the invitation to come to a meeting. It wasn't long until I joined. Along the way of improving my skills at delivering a message, I came to understand that of all the ways to get a point across, telling stories is the best way to get it done. Around this time, another friend from Toastmasters told me about The Moth monthly story telling shows. What better way to test out my theories on storytelling. It's in my travels there to the shows that I found more and more shows, and classes, and events centered around storytelling. Despite how many people know about the storytelling world, not many people know about the storytelling world. So now, I'm out to tell the world about storytelling.

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