Nearly every storyteller has experienced the frustration of telling to these audience members: the clock-watcher, the doodler, the hair-twister, the squimer, the talker, the bored acting, the heckler, ect. But these characters are reminders that sometimes we all forget the most important ingredients in our storytelling program – personal contact and meaningful interaction. Grabbing an audience’s attention is critical to…
Tag: Stories
Visit Valley Forge For Historic Haunts Hayrides
As night falls over Valley Forge and Montgomery County, the winds whisper stories of America’s past. You can sense the spirits of the men at Valley Forge National Historical Park, Brandywine Battlefield and Washington’s Crossing. In daylight hours, historic sites bustle with cooking and spinning demonstrations. Re-enactments of battles and guided tours preserve and illuminate the past for visitors. But…
Promoting Your Blog Using The Social And Bookmark Networks
Sometimes you come up with a great blog story. You know it will drive you a lot of traffic but you have a problem. None knows about your great blog post. In order to get maximum attention you need to spread the word around. This is where the social / bookmark networks come handy. What is a social / bookmark…
The Former Ussr Women S Mentality
Many gentlemen were surprised to know that there is such a drastic difference in attitude and mentality. Although every person is unique, there are certain common tendencies and features of character that make Ukrainian and Russian girls responsive, sensitive, feminine and unique in their traits and perception of the world. So many poems and stories were devoted to the exceptional…
The Importance Of Sharing Stories With Your Child
All official research shows that the early years involve the highest rates of learning, and the habits formed at a young age will stay with them for a lifetime. It’s therefore a perfect time to introduce children to books which educate and inform throughout life. Children of any age can benefit from experiencing books on a day to day basis,…
Hero Pets
The storybooks abound with tales of heroic pets, and the amazing deeds they performed to save their masters from danger, or protect innocent children from harm. The classic TV series Lassie featured the classic “heroic” family dog, seemingly saving disaster-prone Timmy from a new and horrific fate in each episode. But few of us have personally been saved by a…
A Bedtime Story For A New Day
Every child loves a bedtime story. Good stories inspire the imagination and create a sense of drama and suspense. Stories are as old as the bible and as new as the latest published book. There are many different type of bedtime stories, but the best ones are stories that moms and dads can read to their children; a story that…
How To Stop Attracting Negative Conditions
Sadly the world is filled with lots of negativity. Everywhere you look there are stories of sad and depressing conditions. It can be very difficult to maintain a positive outlook in order to attract the better things that you desire. The law of attraction is quite unforgiving. You may be a very nice person however several things within your environment…
Storytelling Pure Emotional Persuasion
I’ll admit it. I cry at movies sometimes. I’m comfortable with it and not ashamed in the least. Movies are stories and stories have been used to elicit emotions (either by design or accident) since the beginning of man. Some of the most fantastic stories are tremendously moving. This emotion can be manifested as a ‘feel good’ or a ‘tear…
Book Review Net Entrepreneurs Only
Everyone loves to read other peoples success stories. It provides us with evidence that amazing things do happen to normal people. By learning what they did to succeed we come one step closer to success ourselves. Such is the case with the ten stories told in Net Entrepreneurs Only – 10 Entrepreneurs Tell the Stories of their Success by Gregory…