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Know Your Story Well
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Take Two on Rule One.
Seriously!
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Know it Backwards in your Sleep, if needed.
Know it from Inner Space. Know it from Outer Space.
Know it as if you were the Princess that Kissed the Frog.
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Read it Quietly. Read it Loud. Read it to Someone. Read it Loud to Many.
Read it out very Loud on Tape.
Have Many read it to You.
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Tell it to an Audience, without notes.
Act it Out Loud.
Use Sign Language to Tell.
Play Charades and Tell the Story.
Tell it again, and again.
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Literally, ask Random people How You Can Improve it.
Accept their Feedback graciously and with a Pinch of Salt.
Make Changes, Make Improvements. Yes, again!
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Kiss the Frog! Say, “yecch!”
Make Changes in the Story to Suit your Personality, Your Style.
Make Changes so that it Suits Many Audiences.
Add Sights, Sounds and Smells.
Make it Short, Make it Long, It doesn’t matter. You Own it.
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Best to Share a Story that Happened to You.
Best to Share your Own Emotional Upheavals, Challenges, Victories, etc.,
Ok, its much Better! Okay?
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Paint the Landscape.
Sketch the Characters
Describe the Times
Color the Horizons
Water the Lawn, Feed the Birds in the Window and Click Your Heels too!
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Take on the Personality of Different Characters
Take on the Fears, Foibles and Failures of being Human.
Let them show on your face.
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Sometimes be the Storyteller while Telling. 1st Person
Sometimes be the Characters in the Drama. 2nd Person
Sometime be the Audience and Enjoy the Show Yourself. 3rd Person
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Plan movements on Stage. Match Body Movements to Storyline. Play with your Audience. Skip a detail.
Change a detail. Surprise them with a new detail. Ask a Question…add in the Answer. You can if you “Own” the Story. Change the Frog Prince to Donald Trump should the Audience ask for it.
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Play Your Voice. Play its Power, Pitch, Projection, Percussion and Parlance.
Drop it when there is tension.
Raise it when victory seems near.
Smile through voice when LOVE is in the air.
Roar when you are Lion. Squeal if you are Mouse. Blush if you are Princess.
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Through all phases, all scenes, all characters.
Enunciate!
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Pause!
Pause, again.
No, that’s not enough. Pause MORE.
I really mean it!
Pause or I… STOP… right… here!
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Let Your Story put Across a Truth.
Whether Story is Fact or Fiction.
Let it put across a Truth of Life. Inspire!
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If you don’t have fun telling the story, the audience won’t have fun hearing the story.
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