Who are your Supporting Characters?
For every story, there is the hero, the one who [...]
For every story, there is the hero, the one who [...]
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As a storyteller, know the end game before you begin. This comes from one of the 7 laws of covey: Always begin with the end in mind.
‘I don’t care about your story, unless your story includes my story’, this is true for stories as well as marketing and advertising and pitching your business.
All good story tellers can manipulate and conjure emotions with our words. As this develops there comes a time where we can then release or regain these emotions into the audience for them to become entangled within the story, so their emotions ride along with the characters.
Emotions are key to a good story. When telling a story it is important to create a set of balanced emotions, moving your audience from sad to happy or dark to light.