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Shedlock on holding an audience: the artifices chapter of The Art of the Story-Teller
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A documentary summary of one chapter of Marie Shedlock's book on telling stories aloud, for narrators, voice-over and audio storytellers. You get a table of the devices the author names for holding attention. It reports her views as her own, unchecked, and covers only that chapter.
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Shedlock on holding an audience: the artifices chapter of The Art of the Story-Teller
Coverage
A documentary summary of one chapter of Marie Shedlock's book on telling stories aloud, for narrators, voice-over and audio storytellers. You get a table of the devices the author names for holding attention. It reports her views as her own, unchecked, and covers only that chapter.
Useful starting points
- The author treats emphasis as a weakness and says a very large audience forces it, so check how much delicacy you lose when you scale up a live telling.
- She says to stop a serial story at an exciting moment so interest carries to the next session.
- Her advice on mimicry is to use it only if you have the gift; otherwise it reads as ineffective.
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