INTRODUCTION
Many Stories Grow From a Single Sentence.
The opening line to your story can be simple, eloquent, informative, contradictory, startling, thrilling, funny, curious, suspenseful … But it should propose a contract to your audience: If you keep listening, I’ll tell you a certain kind of story.
In these lessons, you will take time to think about an intriguing way to begin your:
Success Story
Failure Story
Passion Story
You will learn to craft the beginning, the middle and the end of each story.
You will learn The Art of Insightful Self-Questions and Effective Self-Feedback.
You will learn to embrace and fine-tune your powers of Self-Awareness and Observation (superpowers in my book) through the Art of Journalling and Thinking.
You will learn how to use the Three B’s of Creativity to reflect on the story you want to tell.
You will learn how to use speaking techniques to test how your story sounds and to help you deliver the words with the greatest impact.
You will learn to build a range of stories that are unique to you that you can then tap into to tell the right story at the right time.
You will learn to develop the practice of building a wonderful repertoire of great lines that you can use at the beginning, middle and ending of your story.
Through Aisling’s story (the protagonist in the story/case study in this lesson), you will learn how to use The 6 Tips to Help You Develop Great Opening Lines That Hook Your Audience the Moment You Begin Your Story.
You will also use the #6TIPS as a tool to both structure and test your story.