The Story

Next Level Storytelling: How to Create, Write and Tell Stories That Impact and Engage Your Audience Each and Every Time

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.5

- Create great stories using proven storytelling techniques
- Know the storytelling fundamentals that make stories flow and function
- Understand how to create impactful and emotional stories

What you'll learn

Create great stories using proven storytelling techniques
Know the storytelling fundamentals that make stories flow and function
Understand how to create impactful and emotional stories
Discover the psychology behind why certain narrative storytelling techniques work
Develop storytelling skills that can be applied to promote and enhance many areas of activity

* Requirements

* Students should know that they want to tell great stories and learn about storytelling
* Students do not need fancy software to follow along with this course - pen and paper will do

Description

Storytelling is one of the most valuable skills you can develop.

Do you want to create stories that really catch attention? In words, images or film?

The Story Course teaches you how to create great stories using proven storytelling techniques and approaches.

This course is designed to teach you the ins and outs of storytelling by showing you the art and craft of how to plan, map out and produce amazing stories.

The course gives you a step-by-step insight into what lies behind standout stories.

You will learn from a professional filmmaker and narrator who has directed dozens of films, and releases a new audiobook every week.

The Story Course takes a highly unusual approach.

Rather than cramming you full of rote templates, The Story Course shows you how to originate and tell stories that speak to you (and therefore to your audience!)

The course teaches principles and methods that you can apply today.

  • Learn what makes great stories and vivid storytelling

  • Discover software and resources to help your storytelling

  • Learn how to use the principles and psychology of storytelling to create outstanding stories

  • Create stories using proven professional storytelling techniques

  • Discover highly effective workflows to create your stories

  • Make money using the stories you create, using the storytelling techniques and methods you will master in this course

Improve your storytelling with this complete course.

What makes Paul qualified to teach you?

A documentary film director and audiobook narrator with over 40 film credits and a 20+ audiobooks to his name, Paul is also the creator of popular courses on Udemy - with 36,000 students in 167 countries and hundreds of 5-star reviews.

Regardless of your level of experience, you can create great stories.

Learn professional storytelling techniques that you can use again and again.

If you want to learn how to make great stories, this is the course for you!

Our Promise to You

We'll be here for you every step of the way.

If you have any questions about the course content or anything related to this topic, you can always post a question in the course or send a direct message. 

Dive Right In!

This course dives right into creating great stories, with immediate examples of where they are found and how they are used.

Learn what makes great storytelling, so that you can plan and make impactful stories each and every time!

Learn how to structure, design and deliver stories to tell emotionally engaging narratives!

Learn how to prepare and interpret stories!

Learn how established storytelling principles and techniques can be used to amplify the impact of your stories!

Learn how to use freely available (free and paid) apps to improve your storytelling!

Learn how to use the right storytelling workflow so that you save time, money and energy!

Learn how to use your storytelling craft online and offline!

Start creating amazing stories today!

With our 30-day 100% money back guarantee, there is nothing holding you back from jumping in right now and trying out the course.

Go ahead and click the enroll button, and we'll see you in lesson 1!

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone wanting to create better stories
  • Anyone wanting to make money with their stories
  • Anyone wanting to know more about key concepts in stories and storytelling
  • This course is NOT for people who aren't interested in creating better stories
  • Writers
  • Public Speakers
  • Marketers
  • Video Makers
  • Filmmakers
  • Documentary Filmmakers
  • Creative Professionals
  • Storytellers
  • Podcasters
  • Copywriters
  • Business Owners
  • Communicators
  • YouTubers

Course content

7 sections • 32 lectures

A Snapshot of What's In This Course Preview 01:05

You will find a constantly updated PDF attached as a Resource to this lecture, which you can download for reference.

Welcome to the course! Preview 03:26

Exercise: YOUR aim in taking this course Preview 00:38

Who can benefit from this course Preview 02:16

Exercise: Which genres do you cultivate? Preview 00:32

Methodology of the course Preview 06:52

What kind if storyteller are you? Preview 02:32

Exercise: What kind of storyteller are you? Preview 00:16

What is a story? Preview 08:42

Which part of 'story' do you think matters? Preview 00:21

Story Observations Preview 05:37

A simple - but tough - question Preview 00:16

How to start a story Preview 07:17

What is YOUR 'What If?...' Preview 00:23

How to finish a story Preview 05:48

Exercise: What's your Lodestar? Preview 00:40

How to create characters Preview 05:49

Exercise: let's create some characters for your story Preview 00:40

Heroes and The Nature of Heroism Preview 14:14

The (Vulnerable) Hero's (Inner) Journey Preview 06:05

A Quest Worth Having Preview 03:17

The Four Horsemen of The Story Preview 04:11

What's your Story ABOUT? Preview 02:52

World-building, Setting and Story Preview 21:49

How to use Mazlow Preview 06:52

Voice and Perspective Preview 06:34

30,000 Feet to Zero..and Back Again Preview 05:09

The Devil is in the Detail Preview 06:47

Getting dialogue and action to work together Preview 09:55

Heroes, Villains and Plot Twists - a live insert Preview 04:09

Storytelling Tools Overview Preview 24:05

This lecture serves as an overview of storytelling processes and some tools and apps that can help along the way. Future lectures will dive deeper into the individual apps.