Importance of Storytelling

Thursday Thought
6/9/2016

Stories are a dictation of events over a period of time set by the narrator and the details edited by the same god.

There in lies an importance to tell a story. Well honestly, stories do not need to be interesting to be told, but they do need to be interesting to be heard. Telling a story well holds a great importance to those around us, allowing for them to understand our own epics told in bite-size portions. You can tell something truthful and then you can tell something fictitious, either way the listener should not be able to tell which is which until the narrator shows his hand. Least that's my belief.

A good storytelling is like a magnificent dinner party with an open invitation. As it begins, you hold a cocktail hour, socially acceptable to have people join in late purely based on their interest as it develops. Along with those intoxicating lines with barb hooks and bits, you serve delectable progression in bits and pieces with a little variety for every pallet. Next the service staff calls for every one to sit at the table for the main course, this is where the audience engorges on the robust meat of the plot and the nutritious descriptions and elements. Progressing through the night and into the story, this dinner party escalates in their excitement and enjoyment of the goings on. Once the plates from the meat and potatoes are pulled, there is a seemingly false sense of deescalation. In wheels the desserts, sweet and just what they crave to complete their experience. It's sweet purpose is to complete the meal with a figurative bow and leave them content with the whole event.

Good stories are about resonating with something that the audience has experienced or watched someone experience or dreamed about experiencing. Adventure. Romance. Horror. Etc.

In my ambitions, I greatly desire to write a story that makes the reader weep, chuckle, smile, rejoice, motivated, involved, and so many more emotions. It's too great to wish it be a perfect story, but if I can align words in the English language in order to entrance, envelope and amaze the reader, then I have done as I have dreamed to do.

Oral presentation of a story is a practiced art and a perishable skill. All the good ones do so on a regular occasion, creating the illusion of a natural gift. Writing a story of good worth is not so difficult or endearing as we wish it to be. Writing takes a certain amount of solitude, commitment, energy, and investment of time. In times alone, that is when I develop my greatest ideas and articulate most efficiently.

I encourage you to practice both of these forms of storytelling. It builds character to talk about a character doing things in their world. While you're doing that, do not forget to do things in your own world and develop your own epic worth telling in bite-size stories over the gradual consumption of beverages.