Wonderful video about storytelling by Jay O’Callahan
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Read MoreStory telling is good for you
This article from the BBC tells why story-telling is so important for a variety of tasks in life. We already know this, which is why we invented Story Shout 🙂
Read MorePlaying Story Shout
The easiest way to get started with Story Shout is just to play it! Click on the homepage graphic (or play button) and start telling your story as soon as the glyphs spread out. As the game says: “There are no rules!” The idea is to tell a story out loud that matches the nine glyphs that appear on the screen. There are three ways to tell the story: In time with the fading glyphs – you confine the part of the story you tell to the current glyph before it fades. In time with the entire set – you tell the...
Read MoreAristotle
It was Aristotle who said that a good story should have a beginning, a middle and an end [1]. Despite many of us learning this from an early age, we often fail to grasp this basic advice when inventing and telling a story. When you first start to play the game you will find it difficult to weave a 3-part structure into the story. You will most likely ad-lib the story bit by bit as each glyph fades away. Try to think of the WHOLE story — the central plot idea (what Hollywood screen-writers call the Action-Idea) — and...
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