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How Long Should a Ghost Story Be?

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Summary: Learn the ideal length for a scary ghost story with expert tips on ghost story telling in this free video clip.

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By Matt Cail
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Matt Cail is a painter, makeup artist and cartoonist who grew up drawing Dracula. While in college, he acted in, directed and designed the University of Washington's campus haunted...read more

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"And they say he used this ax. Hi I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village I'm here to show you how to tell a good ghost story. You can be the best story teller in the world you can bring tears to peoples eyes and frighten them to such a degree and even loose control of their bodily functions. But there is to such of a thing as to much of a good thing you do not want your stories to go on and on for ever. What will this do? Now matter how effective, no matter how good I mean think of any really good books you've read or a movie or anything than other entertainment devices. Even if it's really good after a while I mean there is so much you can put up with there's only so much mental stress you can put yourself underneath, by getting scared by a story. So you don't want to take too long more than likely unless you're master of story teller and it's a captivating thing written in the last decade. You're going to put your audience to sleep by going on and on and on so you want to have a clear exit strategy you want to make sure that you have like a timing for your story, how long it's going to take. I recommend that your story does not go longer as 15 minutes that's about the extent of a lot of peoples listing abilities. After that they start to zone you out and then they'll start to fall asleep even if it's really freaky and engaging. "

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