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How To Tell Stories: Storytelling Tips

Presented by Nicholas the Storyteller

Learn how to tell great stories in these free videos with storytelling tips and techniques for entertaining audiences of all ages.

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.

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Endings: Storytelling Tips

Learn how to tell stories with great endings in this free video with storytelling tips and techniques for entertaining audiences of all ages.

Storytelling Tips

Learn how to tell great stories in this free video with storytelling tips and techniques for entertaining audiences of all ages.

Timing: Storytelling Tips

Learn the importance of timing when telling great stories in this free video with storytelling tips and techniques for entertaining audiences of all ages.

Using Costumes for Storytelling

Learn how to use costumes to tell great stories in this free video with storytelling tips and techniques for entertaining audiences of all ages.

How to Tell Stories

Learn how anyone can tell great stories in this free video with storytelling tips and techniques for entertaining audiences of all ages.

Adding Humor to Storytelling

Learn how to add humor when telling stories in this free video with storytelling tips and techniques for entertaining audiences of all ages.

How to Get Paid for Storytelling

Learn how to get paid to tell great stories in this free video with storytelling tips and techniques for entertaining audiences of all ages.

How to Use Storytelling Props

Learn how to use storytelling props in this free video with storytelling tips and techniques for entertaining audiences of all ages.

Attention Span in Storytelling

Learn about attention span when telling stories in this free video with storytelling tips and techniques for entertaining audiences of all ages.

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