How to Tell a Story

Thanks to Youtube for the Comedy Feature.

I collaborated with Scary Dave (thechurchofdave) on the script. Thank him for me by subscribing: http://www.youtube.com/thechurchofdave

Also, thanks to Spricket24 for letting me name-drop. Actually, she doesn't know I'm doing this yet, but she will. Oh, she will... (Honestly, to me, the video this is linked to remains one of the greatest examples of what a good story sounds like from a good story teller.)

I'm going to rant a bit. Skip to the end of the description, the last paragraph, for the short version.

I think storytelling is fastly becoming a lost art. I'm not against vlogs, but let's admit it--storytelling is what vlogging wants to be when it grows up. It's exactly the same as diaries, which are also inspired from the fiction and non-fiction that came before it. (Both ARE stories. Both ARE written to engage their readers, no matter how objective it also tries to be.) Now here we are; storytelling is dying, and vlogging is on the rise.

(It's the mentality that anyone can up and write without years of practice that gives us so many writers today. Andy Rooney once said, "You don't hear people in their fifties and sixties saying they want to do brain surgery when they retire or argue a case before the Supreme Court but a lot of them say they want to write a book--just as soon as they have time. Time, they feel, is all they need.")

Vlogging is choking the life out of the very thing that inspired it to BE at all. What will inspire when it's all but gone? I'm not at all saying any of this to be mean. I want to get people to think about telling stories, about honing a craft, rather than vlogging.

I'd love it if people who wanted to try their hand at it, who wanted to begin to take charge of a craft, would make a video telling a story and post it in response. Be warned: it takes a little more than time.

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[JusticePunkz]

He looks like Leonidas and talks like House.

[pdark007]

why aren't your videos watched more? 5 stars man

[Some1UDoNotKno]

How does one obtain verbal intelligence comparable to this?

[kwinkatopolis]

Have you seen Spricket's nudes? I was all, "Gawd dayyum!"

[iicpn]

Cool Story Bro

[card969]

@JusticePunkz Actually he kinda looks like house if he was slaped by a bag of metal dodads.

[TheBelldiver]

That was a good story. Funny but true I'm sure.

[Stupideos]

STOP MIND FUCKING MY BRAIN!!!!

[denizezgigizem]

you look like an animal

[WildBassfly]

who the fuck is House?

[ukadam2023]

He Talks Like House MD

[mysourday]

This was awesome! Very fine skill, indeed.