Dear Readers,
I write to you from my blearied state tonight to share something I found surprising, excellent, and definitely relevant to anyone's life. You will find out what soon enough, but first an explanatory tangent.
Lately I've taken an interest in the art of storytelling. This act/hobby is so important because almost literally everything in our lives revolves around interacting with and engaging other people, and the majority of those interactions are stories in one form or another.
As with all important things, I turned to the vague entity that is the internet for my guidance. The internet has a few things to say to me, and you for that matter on the subject.
Some quick bullets:
Share focus with the listener.
Ask questions and regularly provide answers. Always have listeners wondering.
Provide vivid details of whatever you are describing rather than phrases like "And then this happened."
Even better than the conventional wisdom was Ira Glass's analysis, which more or less blew me away. The man is just a raging dynamo of witticism, fun and wisdom. Earlier tonight, I sat there in my bed watching him spout knowledge while trying to go to sleep, and decided that I had found at least one new hero. I have only left my pleasantly supine repose to speak with you on account of his piece, and the sheer casual force of the sucker.
Here is a link to the first video in the series of four, others can be found in the sidebar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loxJ3FtCJJA
If you are interested in writing, radio, any creative act in general, or even at the most basic level, talking to people, I highly recommend checking it out.
Until later,
Tim
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