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Back to voice tone though, i always find people get bored of my stories etc.. any good material on voice tone?
I actually have the same problem. I can banter, tease, flirt all high energy and people are having tremendous fun around me. But the moment I go to tell a story, they interest goes instantly down.
I realized (and am still working on this), the problem is that when I banter/flirt I feel confident that what I say will be funny (even if it often isn't ), so my
enthusiasm is obvious to others and it keeps their attention, even if I blow the joke.
The same goes for stories. I started to implement the "enthusiasm" element into my stories as well. I start like "Hey this aaaawesome thing happened to me!!!" This immediately grabs their attention. But I have to "oversell it" quite a bit, which puts so much more pressure on me, to make the story "good" and I often blow it..
I have a couple of stories that I practiced hundreds of times in front of a mirror or vidocamera, to see what am I doing wrong. I can now tell this stories with lot of confidence and they are almost guaranteed to be funny and get awesome reactions.
When I started using videocam I realised how boring I was when telling stories. So I went over and over and over. At the beginig
I was literally falling asleep when watching myself, but as I got better, I could feel that the "storyteller" has drawn me into the story! (And I heard and told the story like 100 times!)
But stories I didn't practice enough times, are still not nearly as funny and I often lose the attention..