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– Learning to unpeel and know a story and how it works. Make friends with it.
– When you are working with a story you need to know everything you need to tell but you don’t have to tell everything. You need to know it to convey the language.
– Midrash is much about language. Need to use fewer words to say more.
– How does your relationship with your story grow? You ask questions about yourself. Why tell the story? Why is it important? Maybe it’s to fulfill an assignment or the tory calls to you.
– The story is not there to serve you it’s there to work with you.

– How do you get to know your story? You need to go on a journey. You need to remember it. Means also to put back together or reassembly. When we remember those story it becomes very vivid and the feel all the senses. You see pictures and you remember what you tell.
– The question to ask to any story is why? Read a story in a book you need to ask why certain things you don’t understand happen.
– What is the object what is it used for?
– Where does the story take place?
– What is happening?
– When is a story happening? When you work with tall tales and wonder stories, the setting is very important.
– Who, who are the characters in the story.
– Who is listening to the story, your audience?
– All these are common sense to understand a story.

– Once learn a story and its words you retell it with gestures. Easier when you are remembering and seeing that story.
– Never feel that telling a story is a favor. Each time of telling needs to be vibrant.
Exercise:
– In your mind’s eyes choose a room or place, you are familiar with your gong to describe that room you must resist the urge to tell a story in that room.
– When you were listening to your partner’s description how much of it was visual? When you remember something, you use all five senses. Sight, smell, touch, taste, and sound.
– As you think of describing your room add more sensory details. Chose a spot and go there at first light, go back at the full day and go back at full dark and you will get different sounds. It looks and feels different.
On the next breakout asks questions.
– Touch and smell are to best items that bring the story to the present.
– Sensory details make you can make your listener with you in real-time by engaging their sense and thus you engage them on an emotional level.
– Found your in a story the vocabulary and style of the deliverer and how they combined get locked about about age 22.
Assignments: find a new world a month and use it as much as you can to get it to become a part of your vocabulary.
– Language and patterns as well as intonation.
– Take your listeners on your journey: 90^ of the time, you are working in a world that your will audience understands. It’s easy to take people not a world. But when you move into the world of folk or wonder, legend tales that is where you are little are creating paths in the air. This is obtained by the art of description.
– We all you sense allow all the listener to see, feel, and underhand the story.
– To write things such as SF, myth, or legend you need to covert ordinary to the extraordinary.
– When you describe an object, the listener will revert to their own memories to create an image of an object.
– Sometimes language can work with you or against you. Need to expound on descriptions. Don’t clutter it. make all descriptions count.
– Light can change the context of a story. He walked down a lonely dark road. he walked down a road at midnight. the sun was shining while walking down a road.
– Sometimes the more descriptions you use the more it can disinterest the reader.
– Storytelling and plot are two different things.
– Working with the story Theseus and the Minotaur. Why does Theseus betray her father?
– Know everything you tell but don’t tell everything you know.
– You don’t want people to analyze your story while they’re hearing it. think of your audience as listeners.
Give the listeners a point of reference to lead them from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
– What Storytelling does that no other art does is it will create questions and discussions.
– You can practice describing an object.
– You can’t ‘tell’ people how to feel. You can’t tell people to be afraid. you have to horn your craft so that in their guts they are really afraid.
– Chose a very simple emotion. Now, describe a room. Identify what emotions your ut has.
– The door is old and rusty. open it to creeks on hinges. Walk down three steps damp and slippery. see an old door is a stall of a toilet or cleaned for a long time. Grouting between the tiles is covered with grey sludge mold.
– This caused the story of disgust.

Kenning:
– We are working in real-time. we are trying to use every work that helps.
– A shortcut called Kennings. a Kenny is not simply a metaphor. you describe something that sees it with new eyes. A Kenning makes you think, ah yes.
– Challenge yourself to see how many kennings you can find. if you were an ago Saxon there is a kenning for the sea.
– Cat eyes on an English road that catches the light of a car.
– Google kennings:
– https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-kenning.html
– Kennings can give you descriptions. For example, dust buster, boom box