“God is in the details”  - Mies van der Rohe

Mastery

 Effective storytelling is not simply telling a story. After focusing the audience with a good start, your real challenge is to maintain their attention. And how well you do this determine whether you get a raucous applause or a deafening silence.

Before you can effectively tell the story, you must visualize and know it by heart. Nothing breaks a story momentum, nothing irritates the audience, more than a narrator who gropes for the next line or one who restates some part and misses others. Can you tell the story of Cinderella in your own words? Try it now.

Visualizing the story also helps in mastering the story. You must be able to run and rerun the story’s sequence on your mind, otherwise you will find yourself from time to time groping for the next words or missing some important part of the story. These are fatal to storytelling.

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