Are you a good storyteller?
In my 5 years of active blogging and content writing, to me was a world I had under my control. This was a side of me that was born out of the passion I had for creativity. It just happen one way or the other. According to Newton’s first law of motion that states “a body will continue in its state of motion unless it is acted upon by an external force”. This to me in my writing journey, were times when I was brushing my teeth, when I find it hard to stand up from the bed or just a random thought. This attest to the fact that my writings have emanated from triggers.
One of my favorite articles http://oladeleibrahim75.blogspot.com/2015/08/agony-of-unemployed-graduate.html was developed from a personal experience. The failed promise that comes with the social pressure of going to school. There is another one that was inspired by the conspicuous lack of our history by the younger generations. http://oladeleibrahim75.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-yoruba-kingdom-part-1.html.
What this explains is that writing might be born out of the writers ingenuity but it was triggered by one cause. And that is why article writing and blogging is scientific.

Writing is science, Storytelling is art. You can learn the process of writing but for story telling, it just have to be innate. To be original you have to have some natural element of it. Who cares about being original when you can fake it? Your Audience. In the storytelling business, your audience invests more than just there time.
I have had to do more storytelling recently but I promise you it is harder than I thought. One of my respected friend walked up to me after a pitch I did recently and told me, “Friend your story telling is weak” and I was like okay…Thank you, I will work on it. I ruminated on what he said for a few days and agreed that something needs to be done about it.
Reading a book by Igoni Barett called Blackass, I could easily paint the picture of Furo in my head and relate to all his dealings as depicted by the writer. That is story telling right there. Story need to be narrated in a way that the audience can connect to it. I want to learn how this story writers have been able to do this easily.
One of the intersection between Content Writing and Story Telling is the fact that you have to consider your audience in the way you present it, however for content writing the reaction by the audience can be slightly disregarded by positioning it as opinion and perspectives. In story telling, you not only look at the demography of the audience, you need to do their psychometric analysis, in real sense, you think and reason for them while you are doing the story telling. This is very hard trust me.
Seeing as storytelling is intertwined with the path I have chosen, it is obvious that telling stories is not an option, I know I have to do whatever it takes to have a near-perfect storytelling skill. This includes taking up psychology classes and going under the tutelage of a willing experienced storyteller.
I have invested more time in the study of Behavioural Psychology recently and I believe it should play out well. If you are a good storytelling coach, let’s get talking.
All that being said, are you a learner like me? It is called the learners’ circle.
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