Storytelling
You have about nine seconds. Use them better.
Two sessions on turning something that happened to you into something worth listening to. Structure, detail, timing, and the ending you keep giving away too early.
- Duration
- 3 hrs
- Group size
- 8–16
- Intensity
- Chill
- Language
- English · Hindi
Everybody has stories. Almost nobody tells them well, and the gap is entirely technical.
You'll bring one true thing that happened to you. Over two sessions you'll cut it, restructure it, find the actual beginning, and stop explaining the joke before you land it.
By the end you'll have one story you can tell at any table for the rest of your life. That is a genuinely useful possession.
How it works
- 01
Two sessions
A week apart. The gap is where the rewriting happens.
- 02
Bring one true story
Any length. We'll cut it by half.
- 03
Told four times
Each time to a different person. It changes every time.
- 04
Open mic option
Optional slot at the next Improv Social.
What you'll cover
Session 1. Structure. Where it actually starts, what to cut, what the story is really about.
Session 2. Delivery. Detail, timing, the pause before the turn, and landing the end.