Henneke Duistermaat – Stories in Miniature

Captivate your audience, make your message more memorable, and build your brand

The 7 story frameworks that can supercharge your content marketing reading stories in miniatureStories in miniature are usually between 100 and 250 words.

Such stories can engage audiences across all your marketing content: on social media, in emails, and as part of long-form content such as blog posts, sales pages, course tutorials, books, and About pages.

Most stories in miniature follow one of 7 story frameworks or common storylines.

This course includes tutorials, prompts, and annotated examples for each of the 7 frameworks:

1. Insight Stories make your tips and lessons more memorable so you can get recognized for your expertise.
2. Transformation Stories add credibility to sales and marketing messages; they can also inspire change and help your audience trust your advice.
3. Imagination Stories help align your content with your audience’s goals and they can demonstrate bad practices in your industry so you can build your credentials as thought leader.
4. Metaphoric Stories add flair and flavor to your writing. Plus, they make it easy to share tidbits about your life and bond with your readers.
5. Opening Stories work great as an introduction for a blog post, podcast, or video tutorial, making your audience keen to learn more.
6. Origin Stories help explain your values and why you do what you do. Your enthusiasm in such a story can inspire customers and potential customers.
7. Product Stories can increase the perceived value of your products.

These 7 frameworks will inspire you to write compelling stories so your audience gets to know, like, and trust you.

This is no ordinary storytelling course

This is a practical course that helps you implement storytelling techniques and apply frameworks so you’ll become a confident, compelling storyteller.

You’ll learn how to spot and write stories in miniature, step by step:

• Learn storytelling techniques
  Short video tutorials (+ transcripts) show you the techniques for compelling storytelling.
• Discover story frameworks
  Annotated examples plus short tutorials show you how to use 7 common storylines.
• Practice your skills
  Guided activities teach you how to spot, write, and evaluate your stories.
• Get inspired
  60+ examples and prompts will unlock your creativity, so you’ll never run out of stories to tell.
• Get feedback
  In two live webinars, I’ll answer your questions and provide feedback on stories in miniature.

This course will help you engage your audience and have more fun as content creator.

Stories in Miniature consists of 6 core modules plus two bonus modules.

Each module includes video tutorials (with illustrated transcripts) and guided activities to practice your learning.

What You’ll Learn In Stories in Miniature

Module 1: How to tell a good story in miniature

• Discover the 3 key ingredients of compelling stories in miniature.
• Learn how to propel a story forward so you won’t bore your audience.
• Practice how to add drama to mundane statements so you can keep your audience captivated (even if you write for a boring industry).

Module 2: Two essential story frameworks

• Discover the ideal story framework for sharing your tips so you can demonstrate your expertise in a creative way and build your authority.
• Explore how to use Transformation Stories to inspire change and add credibility to your sales messages.

Module 3: Sharpen your storytelling skills

• Learn how to hook your readers with your story title (and discover when to use a title and when not).
• Write opening sentences that set the tone and pull readers into your story.
• Harness the power of gleaming details to make stories more memorable.

Module 4: Two frameworks for storytelling with pizzazz

• Align your stories with your audience’s goals so your content resonates more strongly.
• Boost your creativity with metaphors and present fresh perspectives on well-worn topics.

Module 5: Infuse your stories with personality

• Apply 3 tricks for keeping your stories short so your stories become more compelling.
• Learn how to choose between showing and telling to write vivid, short stories.
• Discover why some stories sparkle with personality (and why others feel like bland textbook examples) so you can develop your own engaging voice.

Module 6: How to spot and tell more stories

• Understand how stories fit into your content strategy so your content performs more strongly.
• Use prompts to generate an endless stream of stories in miniature.
• Follow a short checklist to evaluate your stories (and stop editing endlessly).

Bonus Module 7: How to use stories in blog posts (and other long-form content)

• Hook your target audience with an Opening Story so they become keen to read, watch, or listen to your tutorial.
• Discover how to weave miniature stories into long-form content so your lessons become more interesting and more memorable.

Bonus Module 8: Two bonus frameworks to harness the power of stories

• Learn how to share your enthusiasm in an Origin Story and inspire your audience.
• Discover how to write Product Stories and increase the perceived value of your products.

About Henneke Duistermaat

Henneke Duistermaat is an irreverent writer on a mission to stamp out gobbledygook.

Henneke quit her corporate marketing job in 2012 and founded Enchanting Marketing to help small business owners and freelancers find their voice and share their ideas with gusto.

She has authored the books Blog to Win Business and How to Write Seductive Web Copy, and she’s created the 5-star rated courses Enchanting Blog Writing, Enchanting Copywriting, and Enchanting Headline Writing.

Henneke was recognized as a Top 50 Content Marketer by Express Writers and BuzzSumo (2018), and Semrush recognized her as a Top 100 Content Marketing Influencer (2022).

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