A Storytelling Superpower Most Writers Ignore

This one shift will make your stories 10x more powerful.

For years, I thought the page was my home.
It’s where I felt safe. Crafting sentences, polishing paragraphs, making sure every story sounded just right. Writing gave me control.

But here’s the truth most of us ignore: the real power of storytelling doesn’t always live on the page. It lives in the telling.

Speaking your stories, out loud, in your own voice, turns them into something bigger. It makes them resonate in ways ink and pixels can’t. Around a dinner table. On a podcast. In a meeting. On a Zoom call.

When you tell a story out loud, it isn’t just words, it’s presence, energy, trust. It’s the difference between someone reading your story and someone feeling it.

That’s the hidden superpower most writers never practice. And it can make your stories ten times more powerful.

In this article, I’ll share why spoken storytelling hits harder, how I’ve been practicing, and how you can bring this overlooked skill into your own writing life.

So if you’re ready to stop hiding behind the page and start owning your stories, let’s dig in.

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