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Part 2: Structure
Part 3: Scenes
Part 4: Surprise
Part 5: Suspense
Part 6: Specifics
All of these segments — each around 10 minutes or less — will come together soon for a full episode on How to Hook Your Audience and Keep Them Coming Back.
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By developing skills from story structure to scene-making, suspense to specifics, you'll learn to create or improve the show, story, article or speech that expresses what you want to express, captivates the people you want to reach, and achieves quality and depth you can be proud of. You'll move from likes and follows to building trusted, engaged relationships with your audience.
These practices work separately and together to ratchet up both the substance and the "wow factor" of your content, no matter the platform.
"Six S" Storytelling Resources
Shows and storytellers mentioned in this series:
Cohosts: Gilbert King and Kelsey Decker
Marketplace
John Barth, Creative Media LLC
The 13th Step, an award-winning documentary series on sexual misconduct in the addiction treatment
Reporter: Lauren Chooljian
Story Editor: Alison Macadam
New Hampshire Public Radio
Daily Creative
Host: Todd Henry
Producer: Joshua Gott
Famous & Gravy
Cohosts: Amit Kapoor & Michael Osborne
The Rich Roll Podcast
Host: Rich Roll
Guest: Charles Duhigg
Book: Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
Crime Show
"Paging Dr. Barnes"
Host & Executive Producer: Emma Courtland
Katie Colaneri
Senior Podcast Editor
New Hampshire Public Radio
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan
"Bryan Stevenson"
"Samantha Power"
Host: Kelly Corrigan
This American Life
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Quorum"
Reporter: Sarah Gibson
Chameleon: Wild Boys
Host: Sam Mullins
Full Sound Judgment episodes featuring these storytellers
Bone Valley: How to Make a True Crime Podcast That Makes a Difference (Gilbert King, Kelsey Decker)
The Host Defines the Brand with John Barth
How to Make Serious Topics Fun with the Hosts of Famous & Gravy (Amit Kapoor, Michael Osborne)
Cinematic Storytelling with Crime Show's Emma Courtland
How to Pitch an Audio Documentary and the Unusual Origin of a This American Life Story (Katie Colaneri)
The Art of True Curiosity with Kelly Corrigan of Kelly Co
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