The next story telling technique is very powerful and ties back into displaying your personality and bringing your characters to life.
This technique is adding TOUCH to your stories.
This really helps paint the picture and get your audience more involved.
An example of this would be like “My friend and I were walking over there like this… (lock arm in arm).”
Only hold whatever touch you are displaying for the appropriate part of the story. If you are using something like the arm and arm example, you would only do it for that short instance, not tell the rest of the story arm and arm.
An example I would use in my story is when describing his weirdness would be “I would be talking with some of my friends and he would come up from behind me, stick his arm around me like this (put arm on girls shoulder and pull her in, give her a little shake, showing exactly what he did to me).
The key to not making this look obvious is to continue telling your story while initiating the touch, and not looking at where you are touching or pausing and waiting for any form of reaction.
Another fun thing to sprinkle into your...