I love stories.
Whether children in wardrobes and roaring lions, or aliens leaping from chests, or Trojan horses and the games gods play, stories beat in my veins.
In my mid-teens I decided to take my love for stories further and become part of the story; I began as an actor.
The gift of story-telling was placed in my hands, and I was blessed to learn this most ancient of entertainments. I fell in love with story-telling.
The ability to capture an audience, to weave a tale, to seize a heart with words, is enthralling…and powerful.
As acting developed into playing, I explored the development of characters and, like a careless child, fell into the rabbit-hole of voice.
I realized that voice is the most potent elements of a story, giving flesh to skeletal words.
‘He said‘ became ‘sputtering monstrously‘ and ‘the earthquake hit‘ became ‘splintering our sleep‘.
From ancient, camp-fire stories of heroic hunts to digital-screen-projection bullet-dodging, we humans continue to tell a tale. (More on what that tale is another time!)
Story-telling is the uncontested best way to champion a message; voice to grab attention by the groin.
And when I discovered that it can move people, cause emotions, motivations and love, change hearts…and shake nations, I, as you should, began to take it very, VERY seriously.
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Grant R. Nieddu
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Photo of Pluto’s ‘The Abduction of Prosperine’ by austinevan.
[This is an excerpt from our up-and-coming series of books, Principles in the Raw.]
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Story telling, as you have said, in so many words, has been around since the beginning of time and has a way of drawing us in and captivating our true selves and inspire us like none other. It is not another lecture or random thoughts to be thrown to the wind, but it has substance and meaning that we all can relate to, a model to follow, and stirs up critical thinking. Not only that, it opens the channel of communication and strengthens the power of influence. Facts and thoughts are great, but when you add the WOW (architectofwow.blogspot.com) of a story line to it and focus on the AWE it is more relatable and stimulating.
Thank you, Liz. It is very true. I am VERY interested in understanding why, and it is within a thing I call the Mythos of Man; more on that later.