Practice: Breathing, Timing

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Practice Breathing, Timing Tone in Storytelling
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Practice

• Life is in the breath therefore he who only
  half breathes, half lives.
• Practice brings incremental improvements

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Breathe Deeply . . .

• Breathe
• Relax
• Be in the moment

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Heres how . . .

• Slowly exhale, breathe through the nose, empty
  all air from lungs
• Slowly inhale, breathe through the nose, imagine
  the lower lungs are filling
• Continue your slow, quiet inhalation, expand the
  chest as much as possible
• Hold the breath, exhale, relax

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Now What?

• Practice for improvement

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Practice Story

• Learning the story master the structure, the
  style and the timing, and make the story your own

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Master the structure

• Learn the story as a whole
• The storyline . . .
• Beginning set stage, intro characters conflict
• Middle Body conflict builds to climax
• End conflict is resolved

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Master the Style

• Observe sentence structure, key phrases, unusual
  words, expressions.
• The beginning and ending matter

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Timing time yourself

• Each story has its own pace
• Pause . . . Before change of ideas, significant
  words
• Emphasize words with meaning
• Poetry Imaginative Phrases
• Action
• Build to climax
• Conversation
• Pause . . . The value of softer

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Tone

• Should relate to whats happening
• Word sensitivity
• Emotion

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Breathe . . .

• How You Breathe . . .
• Place your voice in the middle of your chest
  rather than upper chest or head
• Abdominal Breathing When your voice is in your
  middle chest, abdominal breath gives rich, full
  tones to the voice
• Life is in the breath.