Focus On The STORY Of Your Podcast's Episodes

Many podcasters say they want to improve their shows. One easily overlooked area of improvement is you. Specifically, your ability to tell better stories with your episodes. This mnemonic device can help. One of the most crucial skills a podcaster must possess is the ability to tell stories. Your ability to tell stories is more important than the timbre of voice, your equipment stack, and your marketing efforts.  Fortunately, storytelling is a skill that can be acquired, with many practitioners offering workshops, classes, and one-on-one training. One of those practitioners is https://www.dawnjfraser.com/ (Dawn Fraser). I learned a clever mnemonic device from her that will you can tell better stories on your podcast—S-T-O-R-Y. S is for stakes. Not the why of the episode, but the want of the episode. It's the hunger. It's the expectation you set for your audience that keeps you on track and keeps your audience locked in place. T is for theme. The main through-line or meat of the story. It's your topic, angle, and where you're taking the story. If you know your theme, you can trim away the excess bits so that only the best parts make it into your episode. O is for organization. Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. But sometimes, starting in the middle and guiding your listeners through a less obvious path makes for a better episode.  R is for recreating. Your audience wasn't there when the thing happened. They're here now, relying on you to summarize points and recreate scenes to make your story work as a podcast episode.  Finally, the Y is for you. You are an integral part of every single story. You are our proxy. You get us deeper into the stories you tell on your podcasting episodes. We want some of your personality and even biases in the episode.  With some odd edge cases aside, every podcaster is a storyteller. 200,000 years have shaped the human brain into a story-receiving vessel. Podcasters will do well to remember that. ----- Links Getting more than 10K downloads per episode? Talk to https://evoterra.link/gumball (Gumball.fm)!  https://www.dawnjfraser.com/ (Storyteller Dawn Fraser) Over 100K active podcasters trust https://evoterra.link/buzz (Buzzsprout). Serious about podcasting? Join the https://evoterra.link/app (Advancing Podcasting Community) today! ------  https://podcastpontifications./ (Podcast Pontifications) is a production of https://simpler.media/ (Simpler Media). New episodes are released four times a week, providing ideas and questions every serious podcaster should be thinking about. It's created and hosted by https://twitter.com/evoterra (Evo Terra. Follow him on Twitter) for more podcasting insights as they come. http://alliepress.ne/ (Allie Press) assists with the production and transcription of the show. If you received value from today's episode of Podcast Pontifications, return some of that! We call it https://podcastpontifications.com/support (value-for-value), and there are many ways to show your support.

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