Storyworthy Summary (C20): Time Travel

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When you tell a story well, your audience may, for a moment, travel back with you to the time and place you are describing.

This is your ultimate goal.

You want your audience to forget that you and the present moment exists.

Relieving your audience of space and time is easier to achieve when the conditions are just right.

Dimmed lights and relaxed, comfortable setting works wonders.

Once the audience is in this zone, the zone you’ve created for them (your very own twilight zone), you want to keep them there for as long as possible. Preferably until the end of the story.

Getting your audience into the zone can be difficult, and it often won’t happen.

Unfortunately, it’s also easy to break them out of the zone. Here are some guidelines to follow to prevent that:

• Don’t ask rhetorical questions. It causes them to think of the answer.
• Don’t acknowledge the audience's existence. Don’t refer to them, question them, or answer them. They are not there.
• Never use props.
• Avoid anachronisms. An anachronism is something that is out of its proper time period, such as the average teenager having a cell phone in the 1980s.
• Don’t say the word ‘story’. For example, ‘long story short’.
• Downplay your physical presence. Don’t wear anything eye-catching. You want them to forget you're there and hear only your voice.

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