This workshop, by Professional Storyteller Kevin Strauss, helps storytellers, teachers, naturalists, and parents create more interesting and effective animal characters in their tales by using voice, body language, facial, expressions, and “animal headology” to help you think, sound, and act … Continue reading →
Explore different kinds of traditional stories in this story and lecture video
Continue reading →Anecdotes and fables are short stories with a clear point, lesson, or moral. While anecdotes tend to arise from personal or family experiences, fables are often traditional folk stories passed down from generation to generation over thousands of years.
Continue reading →Learn how to add sensory details and more poetic language in your stories.
Continue reading →Discover how storytellers and writers throughout history have used “three step” and “parallel” stories to share a tale.
Continue reading →Circle stories have a story format in which the hero of the story faces many challenges or makes many decisions, and then ends up almost exactly where she started. They tend to be stories that help us appreciate ourselves and … Continue reading →
Learn how to use a simple story coaching technique to get better and more useful feedback from a storytelling group or writing group.
Continue reading →Story performers often like to add character voices to a story to make it more interesting. This video gives you the basics of how to add character voices: how to find the “right” voice for a particular character, and how … Continue reading →