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Story is everywhere. Story can be seen in song and fiction, as well as in non-fiction, blogs and art. Every day when we say what happened on the weekend or what happened to a relative on holiday, we use story. Even a news story on television follows the pattern of...
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The dog and the bone is an Aesop Fable, which has here been adapted to an Australian setting. [Aesop’s Fables, along with parables, are well-known forms of story.] Read the fable like you are watching a video – where much of the story is in the vision. And notice how...
Read more about An Aesop Fable and the structure of a story (Story Tip 2)
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I was travelling by bus to the airport with my two young goddaughters and their parents. It was a long trip, over an hour. So I told the girls a long story that started with a tiger passing through a village in the rain. Half way through the story I...
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This story variation is for telling business-style stories which want to make people think about what they could do. Orientation - who does the story happen to and what is the time and place that the story starts? Describe a successful change. (be brief) What would have happened without the...
Read more about Telling stories to incite action (Story Tip 3)
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Jesus is renowned for telling parables. Many of them are written down in the Bible in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Here are two parables Jesus told. They are very short, but can you see the orientation, complication, solution, resolution and coda? By the way, did you notice where the...
