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Hello friends,

Happy New Year! I hope your 2021 is off to a great start!

I'm thrilled to announce a series of workshops of all kinds for the first couple months of the year, including a first ever "Humor in Storytelling" workshop.

Dates here. Click for details:

THIS WEEK'S LESSON

A simple but impactful lesson this week having to do with performance:

Don't rush the ending of your story. If you've crafted your story well, the ending will be the most important part. Yet so often, as storytellers close in on this critical section of the story, their pacing increases instead of decreasing, as if they fear that the audience is about to get up and leave. 

As storytellers, we slow our pace at the most critical points of a story. The ending, especially. If the audience has gone along with us ion our journey, we have a duty to see it through properly at the end.

Take your time. Let those final words mean something. 
Looking to learn more about storytelling through something more than a weekly email lesson?

Try my book on storytelling:

Storyworthy Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling

Available in paperback, Kindle, and audio, which I narrate myself!

On episode #108 of the Speak Up Storytelling podcast, Matthew and Elysha Dicks are back, talking storytelling!

In our follow up segment, we discuss future workshops and more.  

In our Homework for Life segment, Matt talks about finding stories in the quietest of places.

Next we listen to a story by Scott Gawlicki. 

Amongst the many things we discuss include:

  1. Humor via specificity and nostalgia

  2. Opening with a clear scene

  3. Defining terms

  4. Allowing the audience to get ahead of you

  5. A perfect beginning and ending equilibrium

Next we answer a question about storytelling for dating and finding a storytelling community.  

Lastly, we each offer a recommendation. 

RECOMMEDATIONS

Elysha: Prom (Netflix film)

Matt: Soul (Disney film)
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PERFORMANCES AND WORKSHOPS 2021
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