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You break down the structure of the story.
You look at the plot.
You look at what happens first, what happens next. You look at where the setting
is. You look at the characters, any important objects in the story
and you actually have to imagine them you'll have to,
I suppose is a little bit like a way an actor would prepare for a
character, you have to really get to know
the characters in the story.
You have to really deeply imagine the setting.
You have to look behind the story at why things are happening and a lot of
the time you you are just making it up in your own mind. Obviously, if you are
taking a story from a certain cultural tradition,
you'll have to be respectful of that tradition and you have to do research so that
when you tell the story, you'll not saying things that don't fit in with that
culture.
Stories usually work best
if their honed in the telling
rather than honed
by memorising them.
So you get to know the structure of the story
and you're just trying to get it out of your mouth,
and the first time you tell it, it might not come out very well
but then you tell it again and then you tell it again
and you tell it again and it's important after the first couple of
times that you actually have an audience for it
because
storytelling is a dynamic process between the audience and the teller
because
the storytellers aim
is to
light up the audiences' imagination,
to get
the audience to visualize this story
happening in their mind
When you tell the story maybe for the the second or third time,
it might.. when you told it for the twentieth time, it might be
a completely different story, the structure will still be there, it will still have more or less the
same plot but you will let added details,
you've taken away some details,
the characters may have grown
they will be
fuller, more richer, in some ways because you've got to know it better.