How do I get better at storytelling? I get paranoid that I'm

>>17391661
record yourself

tl;dr

>>17391661
I have a friend who is really good at it, I don't know how he does it. But, even if I have a story to tell, I'll start it up, and let him take it away.

>>17391661
It's a gift not a skill. Not everyone can be your Uncle who almost felll of a frozen waterfall while snowboarding and had to carefully climb back up a mountain.

>>17391745
I know people who can make interesting stories out of something otherwise very mundane. The difference is, when it happens to me, I don't even think of it as something worth telling other people about. It's all in how imaginative you are, and the delivery.

>>17391881
Way to make a whole post about everything I just said.

>>17391887
I'm talking about telling stories about a weird guy you saw at the store or something, not climbing up a mountain after falling off a frozen waterfall.

Me and my friends have this simple game we call "Tell me about that time". Basically, one guy comes up with some strange premise for a fictitious personal anecdote(for example: "Tell me about that time you rode a horse to a job interview"), then the other guy has to improvise the details of the story("On my way to a job interview some years back, my car broke down outside the race track, but then I had this idea..."). After a while, you get really good at making things sound exciting and semi-plausible.

Also, try roleplaying. As in, with pen and paper and dice.