Train Your Storytelling Muscle

Train Your Storytelling Muscle

A 10-Minute Daily Practice - A Mini-Workbook

Welcome, Changemaker!

This workbook is your creative playground. Designed to gently strengthen your storytelling skills, it will help you:

  • Recognise powerful openings in books and content
  • Practice setting the stage with time, place, or person
  • Build a repeatable, 10-minute habit to sharpen your message
PART 1: THE BIG THREE ANCHORS

Every great story starts with clarity. Most first sentences open by anchoring the reader in one of these three ways:

1. TIME

When is this happening?

2. PLACE

Where are we?

3. PERSON

Who are we with?

PART 2: READ & REFLECT

Let's dive in! Choose 10 books from your shelf (or digital library). Write down the first sentence of each and identify which anchor it uses:

Book Title First Sentence Anchor Used
PART 3: YOUR TURN

Write 3 original story openings - each one using a different anchor.

Example: "It was the first rain of spring when Mara returned to the lighthouse."

BONUS CHALLENGE: MIX & MATCH

Now combine two (or all three) anchors to create a more dynamic opening.

Now You

You are the hero of your own story.

KEEP TRAINING WEEKLY

Revisit this practice once a week. Like yoga or music, storytelling grows with gentle, consistent effort. Each session helps you:

✨ Speak more clearly

✨ Write more persuasively

✨ Connect more deeply

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