Bored Blog 11: Being A Better Story Teller

7/21/2021

Wow, we're already up to the 11th Bored Blog.

Youtube recommended me this video today.

I was bored so I watched it. The guy, Jeven Dovey, talked about the basics of telling a story (which I already knew). But then he put story telling in every day life. How we tell our friends, family or anyone a story of something that happened to us.

For a while I kind of knew I'm not very good at telling a story of something that happened to me. I'm much better at writing stories than telling them.

After watching this dude, Jeven, I realized why the stories I tell people aren't that great. It's because I don't give them some background information. Though there are some people where I don't want to talk about myself too much to. I usually give them a one to two sentence summary of what I've been doing.

I also don't like telling a story over and over again. It makes the story for myself boring! But if I keep practicing telling people my stories, it would help me improve on my story telling skills.

Jeven also says later in the video to watch and read lots of stories.

To me that's funny because I keep hearing from very successful people like Tony Robbins and Sorelle Amore to not watch TV shows or movies. It kills a lot of your time. Time that you can use for other things.

And I'm sitting here as a filmmaker thinking, "But...I need to watch them. I need them to learn." Part of me thinks, "Hahaha. I have an excuse," while the other part of me thinks, "What am I doing with my life? Sitting around consuming videos all of the time."

Oooooh, and reading. People like Toney Robbins talk about reading a lot. The more you read, the more you know. Which makes me think, "So, manga and webcomics count too right??"

I really want to ask Mr. Robbins if they do. It's not that I've been reading them lately, but I do love reading them. Plus they're free.

Maybe I just need some kind of balance for how much I watch, and what types of things I read.

Hayao Miyazaki is an animator, but he doesn't watch many films or anime. He reads and travels to different places. And his work is loved by soooooo many people.

Who knows, maybe I'm fine the way I am. As long as I keep learning in some way, shape or form, that's good enough.

Best,

Emel