Storytelling Tips

Series Summary

Nothing satisfies an audience quite like an epic story of love, tragedy, and heroism. The poets of old, master storytellers by trade, would spin yarns of unimaginable length, challenging the capacity of the human memory, using rhythm, rhyme, imagery—and many other tools of the storyteller’s arsenal—to deliver stories and fables orally. As books were expensive to make, and therefore expensive to own, the oral tradition was the best way to entertain, to pass on culture and tradition, to express moral concern, to distinguish value, to reflect—to do any of those things that we now do in book form, a vehicle which seems to be wavering in and out of popularity itself in this frenetic age of fast-paced digital superiority.

In these free instructional videos, learn how to recapture a technology that is as far advanced as the human brain is to the computer. The art of storytelling, though not accomplished with manmade tools, is one of the most technically complex and sophisticated processes that the human machine can invoke. Our expert storyteller will train you in the ways of the bard, the wayfarer, the wanderer. He will show you the secrets of the storyteller’s trade. The only price that he asks of you is to keep practicing until you can weave a tale well-enough to enthrall an audience, to keep the craft of storytelling alive by doing it the justice that the form deserves.

Let the students approach to hear from the master.

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village I am Nicholas the Storyteller here in Miami, Florida and today I'm going to teach you how to tell a story. Stories are more important than you make think they are. Ah, Yes. I mean everyone has to tell stories. Ask the mother of any five year old child. Does your child know how to tell stories? Yes, Yes. Stories are told in films, stories are told in books, stories are told when you get to work in the morning a little bit late. Stories are told all the time. Everybody does it, Everybody tells stories, and the purpose of my coming to you is to help you tell better stories."