Check out the bulletin board at
your local library and the next time
a professional storyteller is in town,
go. Watch the techniques storytellers use to engage an audience:
inflection, eye contact, dramatic
pauses, volume level. For a good
article on the art of the storyteller,
browse to www.seanet.com/~eldrbarry/roos/storytel.htm and take
some notes. (This storytelling site’s
main page is at www.seanet.
com/~eldrbarry.) One section of
the article discusses how to select a
good story: “If you aren’t comfortable with a story or a set of funny
lines, your material won’t go over
well.” Ouch! Think about the last
presentation you delivered where
you had little or no passion for the
topic. Think your audience noticed?
Without a doubt