Telling Stories
Storytelling Tips:
- It takes TWO MINUTES for the average person to read ONE PAGE of double-spaced, 12pt text. Please try to keep stories under ten minutes (5 or fewer pages of double-spaced text)
- Use facial expression, tone, and body language to enhance your performance
- Go over your story and make notes for where to pause, breathe, make a sound effect, or otherwise embellish your performance
Check out the 'work count to time to read' conversion tool below!
- Word Count to Time to Read Converter This converstion tool can tell you approximately how long it will take to read something aloud based on word count. You can recalculate based on how fast or slow you intend on going.
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Telling Scary Stories
Take a listen to some of these chilling tales and then ask yourself:
- What did the teller do with their voice? Did they change volume for effect? Did they do different voices for different characters?
- What details were important to setting the creepy, uneasy tone of the stories?
- What aspects of the setting, characters, or adjectives used helped build a sense of terror?
- Do you notice anything in common between these stories, things all of the authors or tellers do?
- What made the stories scary to you? Could you thread those same attributes into a story of your own?