What's a good formula for Good story telling?

[Travel memoir21]

This could be not just for getting women, but for all sorts of people your trying to leave a good impression on. What's a good formula to make an intriguing story telling to capture a person or audience imagination and leave them slightly curious and wanting to hear more? What works for you?

 

[Mike32ct]

The story needs some drama, i.e. something gossip worthy.

A “you can’t make this stuff up” type of story.

 

[Gamisch]

The story needs some drama, i.e. something gossip worthy.

A “you can’t make this stuff up” type of story.

Life. Gotta be out there living and have lived a wild life. It makes your story authentic and the more you been through the more got to say.

If you combine that with being well read and well informed, you'll never run out shyte to say. And ofcourse like Chopin once said " the notes you DON'T play matter the most" aka silence can also be a tool in the conversational belt

 

[BackInTheGame78]

Watch the people who go on those late night shows and how they interact with the hose and tell whatever story they tell.

Essentially you follow the way they do it because it's been perfected over time by their agents and scripters, etc...

No need to reinvent the wheel, just use the same principles they do.

 

[Mike32ct]

Life. Gotta be out there living and have lived a wild life. It makes your story authentic and the more you been through the more got to say.

Absolutely. I’m referring to true stories that you actually experienced in real life.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Some comedians have a story teller style. Ali Siddiq has some great stories about being a drug dealer and then later a prison inmate.

 

[MatureDJ]

Start with:

There once was a time ...

 

[jhonny9546]

I can give my opinion on this.
In Italy, people are often gossipy.
They don't just talk badly about others, even if that's what they're talking about.

So they'll always talk about events, what happened to others, etc.
Let's say that in Italy the problem is the opposite.
Here, people are so chatty that you have to develop skills to not say too much about yourself, otherwise the others, the malicious ones, will use them against you as soon as you leave.

There are men with such a long tongue that it feels like you're talking to women.

But... apparently women adore these men... and they can't miss every gossip they have about others... Except about themselves.

I've never seen men like these make fun of themselves or laugh at themselves every now and then, which is essential.

So how do you create good storytelling?
Come Italy to learn

 

[Apocalyptic Broccoli]

A “you can’t make this stuff up” type of story.

I gotta say one of Mystery's stories about a cat fight takes the cake here:

They were fighting over this guy. I talked to him afterward. His name was Glen, That's a deal-breaker name. Glen. So they were pulling each other's hair and one of the girls' boobs pops out, Normally I'm all for seeing a ripe one, but this was a "saggy-baggy booby"... you know, from National Geographic.

I couldn't find the whole story; this is all the Interwebs seem to remember of it.

Of course you gotta be able to deliver it properly.