Fourteen steps to an unforgettable story

1. Find your story
2. Push through the story
3. Envision the scene with present-day feelings and concern
4. Tell the story from the view of someone at the scene
5. Establish the story's one central truth
6. Find a memory hook
7. Tell a story within a story
8. Plan your first words
9. Know how it ends
10. Research the facts
11. Eliminate needless details
12. Add descriptions that will bring life to the story
13. Include audience participation
14. Arrange practice audiences

from The Art of Storytelling by John Walsh

Ideas for stories

Return to the pilgrimage concept

Develop the concept of the rescuer, who helps those imprisoned in a cave

A people setting out to form a utopian community (theocracy)

A spiritual Watership Down

The bears in the cave

The lighthouse keeper who longs to go instead of stay

Dolphins and reality

Previous story lines

The farmer
The traveler
The shepherd king
The bridge builder
Four friends in search of truth
Stories from Samuel