Effective Story Engagement - Principle Number Three

When an action scene arises, you can feel your heart rate increase and your muscles tighten as danger is engaged. The story needs to become like a movie in your mind that you can fast forward and re wind at will. If you let yourself become a seven year old girl sitting on the curb waiting for mom to pick you up, you are likely going to feel things in your body that you may not want to feel. So principal number three of effective story engagement is to use the exquisite instrument, that is your body. Let your body give you data about what it feels like for the boy or girl in the story. You need to always be monitoring the story teller's affect. Affect refers