Ira Glass On Storytelling

Ira Glass brings so many great building blocks in creating a great successful story. I believe that my story has potential to be great but it is missing some crucial elements. Ira talks about the anecdote and the importance of having a series of actions leading up to a moment of reflection. I think that my anecdote is good because I am constantly bringing up new actions so it keeps the listener involved and curious. At the end of my story I have an interesting twist that leaves the story pretty open ended which leaves the listener to reflect upon what they heard. My story falls short of emphasizing this moment of reflection. There is a huge underlying metaphor in my story that I think needs to be more obvious or else the listener will have no idea what it is or how to figure it out. I think what I will do is use more use of questions in my moment of reflection so that listeners will be able to figure out what the underlying metaphor is that I am trying to portray.