To interact with this page you must login. Signup

In conversations, what makes a good story teller?

IE you're telling a story to a friend or an acquaintance. What makes regaling successful and why?

social skills

psychology

understand

tynamite

Update

To become a good storyteller in conversations, you have to first hook the listener to be interested in your story before you tell it. You have to tell it in a consistant fast pace, unlike how you would if you was on the phone to your mother making the story drag on for 5 minutes.
===================

Eradicate shallow characters

You need characters that are not shallow, who behave slightly different depending on who they are around. Shallow characters have no personality, and are one dimensional because they are defined by one trait. The best example of this is The Simpsons. There's a clever, stupid, maternal one, and that's it. The thing with shallow characters is that you have no idea how they will behave in a situation, because they behave in the way the author wants them to behave in the situation.

Eradicate screen only conversations

There are also certain things you can and cannot talk about in print, that you can always talk about on screen. Most of the things you talk about to your friends, do not work on print, they only work on screen. All conversations work on screen.

For example:
You can't a scene in print, where you chat among your friends, where you talk about how you went to KFC, and got an extra chicken because your friend works there. It just doesn't work, although it would work on screen.

There's more

There are more techniques that I use to make conversations really interesting. However I will not post them here, as they do not apply to every piece of writing.