How can I improve my storytelling skill? 🤔
What are your suggestions for being a (good) storyteller?
These are the sources I have used so far:
1- Talk Like TED(Book)
2- Storyteller's Secret(Book)
3- All TED Videos
4- TED videos about Storytelling( https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH-mllR4nmZayQYmN-TuzI5b9B9Re4G4P )
You've great resources above and I like TED.
Frankly speaking. Storytelling speak is super hard to improve by reading and watching successful speakers. Instead, you just need to speak and write more on top of reading and watching.
You might want to challenge yourself to deliver more public speaking, run a workshops and try your best to be confident in front of different audiences.
Do not forget your "Why" and make sure to translate you terminologies into an unstandable languages for your audience.
Classic Ira Glass quote: https://youtu.be/PbC4gqZGPSY
It`s called "chui niu bi" in China
Why do you think you need to improve storytelling skill?
Read Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks great tips in the book.
Where have you been until this time?
It was a great book proposal. I put 2021 at the top of my reading list. You definitely have more good suggestions. Please give me more suggestions when I haven't finished my list of ready books.
Try different templates, like blockbusters use https://youtu.be/2YWeJ22mIlE
The Hero with a Thousand Faces – a good book for this goal.
This video is a little bit long :D I will watch tomorrow. When I looked video, I thought it is a good suggestion. Thank you @begovatovd
Do you have any suggestions?
I'd suggest signing up for a creative writing class. Writing stories and getting feeback from a good writer is what helped me a lot.
wow! It was a really great suggestion. Thank you.
It will definitely work for me, but should it be the comments of successful writers or the comment of my audience that is important to me? What do you think about this? After all, I'm creating stories for my audience. What would you comment on that? I wonder.
these things are not mutually exclusive. At the course, you can share with your teacher about your audience and help you shape your stories for it. Your audience is a great source of feedback and you should not hesitate from engaging them and learning from them too.
I'm not an expert in storytelling, but I would suggest trying to practice putting some stories together. Nothing beats a good bit of practice.
Yes, you are right. However, how will you know if your stories are good? In particular, I share my content on Linkedin. Sometimes the story I created so badly gets hundreds of likes and comments, sometimes a few people like my best content.
Who gets to define what is good?
This should be a separate topic of discussion: D
But in my opinion, being able to influence my audience sounds like I'm making a good story. If I can influence my audience, I think they will show their reactions with appreciation. How would you describe the good?
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