When a story is engaging, the audience themselves are also engaged into the story—they are able to retain information easier, and produce different theories to themselves about what could happen next. When there are visual or audible clues—hand gestures to guide the viewers and give context, followed by creating sound effects with your mouth or giving characters in your story different voices—it helps keep the audience engaged and willing to listen to what you are sharing. The same can be said about doing things in a virtual world; they follow the same sort of style of storytelling, in which the storyteller shows and tells the audience what they want them to know, and can create specific things that are related to the story to help keep the audience engaged.
While presenting a story visually is not my strongest suit, I would like to try and find a way to create something visually to aid my writing as a way to give the audience a better idea of what I’m trying to portray. I want to create stories that are fictional and entertaining to consume and have fun with, while containing ideas and conversations that can help others digest topics that may be hard to express and talk about in any other setting. I want to create things that people can relate to in some way, or find themselves at least gaining a new understanding of things.
I think movies and stories that I have read in general have inspired me to create stories that are both entertaining and informative in their own way. No specific story comes to mind, but I know that stories themselves are influential, and with that responsibility of being a storyteller, more than anything, I want to make sure people have a fun time with the stories that I create; and, hopefully, I can inspire others to do the same and have fun with their own story creating.