Spin the Yarn

Having just completed my first storytelling experience, I am going to run through my process from beginning to end. Below is the video of the experience. The first step was selecting the story. I wanted a story that I thought would be humorous and fun. I have always enjoyed Jon Scieszka's fractured fairy tales because I like the way that they subvert what you think you know about well-known stories and show you them from a new perspective. I chose The Frog Prince, Continued because of his first three books, it was the one that I was the least acquainted with, having only been read it once in elementary school. I wanted the story that I was going to tell to be fresh to me, since I knew I was going to be reading it man Another reason for choosing The Frog Prince, Continued was because of the number of characters in the story. I knew that I wanted to do different voices for each character and this story has only six characters, which I thought would be a manageable number to keep tra