• Free write short stories from your past for 30 minutes

    • This boosts the brain’s ability to recall stories

  • Read a variety of stories, from classic literature to fiction, to study different storytelling techniques.

    • Take notes and combine them into your skills
    • Analyze stories to identify the key elements that make them effective.

  • Use storytelling elements in your daily conversations and presentations.

    • Takes note of the outcome of each conversation
    • Then reflect and change

  • Experiment with different writing structures:

    • Blogs
    • Emails
    • Threads
    • Ebooks

  • Use a range of characters and settings in your stories to make them more interesting.

    • Don’t just right about yourself
    • Makeup characters that relate to your audience
    • Use different ones and record the results of what works, & what doesn’t

  • Use descriptive language to create vivid imagery and bring your stories to life.

    • Practice writing about scenes
    • Make them as detailed as possible
    • Engage the senses in the description
    • Sight, smell, touch, taste, & feeling of the scene
    • Change up the scenes with different time periods

  • Practice summarizing complex lessons in a simple, engaging story format.

    • The best storytellers can make a perplexing problem easy
    • Think and study complicated ideas
    • Then break them down into a simple story

    Use these to find ideas and enhance your storytelling skills:

    1.) The random word story

    • Use a random word generator and write 3 simple sentences about the word

    https://wordcounter.net/random-word-generator

    • When you get comfortable extend the sentences into stories using

      • The setup - I went for a walk
      • Conflict - I got lost and was late for my appointment
      • Resolution - I called my friend to help find me

    • Practice telling stories out loud to an audience. It can be friends, family, or a public speaking class.

    • Engage with strangers in conversation and listen for verbs or nouns you can tell a story about.

      Example:

      Stranger - “My boss is an asshole”

      You - “Oh my Dad’s an asshole”

      A connection is born