Telling a Personal Story in Front of an Audience
Write your story
A course by Nicole Castillo , Oral Storyteller and Journalist
About the video: Write your story
Overview
“Since we already have the story in our heads, in this lesson we are going to put it on paper. We will do it using bullet points to avoid memorizing history; we want it to be a living story.”
In this video lesson Nicole Castillo addresses the topic: Write your story, which is part of the Domestika online course: Telling a Personal Story in Front of an Audience. Learn to use tools and techniques for oral storytelling and share your own story in public .
Partial transcription of the video
“write your story In this lesson we will write your own story through bullet points. We already have the story in our head. We already chose the story we want to tell. We know where we want to tell it from and the narrative structure that we will use. Now we will take this to paper to capture it and so that in this way it serves as a guide at the time of learning the story to later take it to orality. Why bullet points? If we write the whole story as we want it to be told with the semicolon with which we will narrate it, it may be that we fall for the idea of memorizing history and we don't ...”
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Course summary for: Telling a Personal Story in Front of an Audience
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Category
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Areas
Communication, Creative Writing, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling

Nicole Castillo
A course by Nicole Castillo
Nicole Castillo is co-founder of the storytelling company La Matrioska and the Casa Contada school. She is dedicated to telling stories and helping other people to tell their own.
It has been presented in theaters, auditoriums, libraries, hospitals, social organizations and cultural centers in different countries of America and Europe. In addition, she is the director of the ChileCuentos Festival, which brings together some of the best storytellers in the world every year.
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