Hey all...
All my storys seem to go nowhere so i was hoping someone could suggest some material to improve this very important tool...

I think this is why i tend to stay quiet so much, my stoytelling sucks not only with women but also my guy friends

Plz help

I've never heard of a book about storytelling but there are articles and some videos on google. Try to take an interesting story that happened to you and make it more interesting by some lying. Never have too many details or talk too long, if you see people are getting bored, finish the story in the next sentence or two. You can also make a complete bs story but don't make it really obvious that you made it up.

"Triggering Town" is great. It is made for writing stories and poetry but is def applicable to speech as well.

Mary Oliver's "A Poetry Handbook" goes over how sentence length and even the consonants and vowels in poetry (and also applies to speech) affect the emotion you are portraying. For instance, long sentences with where you have upwards of 10 syllables sounds euphoric. Short sentences are aggressive.

Generally, I would suggest playing around with words and sentence length, telling the same story (when it comes to you naturally) multiple times. Try not to use "I" or "me" a ton, use senses and images and DO NOT TELL, show.

Also, keeping a dream journal can do wonders. You will get more poetic images from dreams than anywhere else. Just train yourself to look at clocks during the day whenever you can, then you will start to have more vivid and even some lucid dreams. Keep a dream journal by your bed and write in it the second you wake up.
Look up these images up at www.dreammoods.com to find their figurative significance. After a few months, you won't need the journal anymore because you will remember the dream for the rest of the day instead of just a few minutes.

I am a writer so if you want to pm with a story you are working on I can take a look at it.

Ahh, another lucid dreamer! I highly recommend the dream journal idea. Nothing makes a better story than the ramblings of your subconscious. Whenever a conversation is running dry, or I hear a good link, I just spit out "You'll NEVER guess what my dream was like last night." It instantly piques the girl's interest, and I illustrate the epic, slightly tailored version of an especially good dream. If you get the delivery right, they can get some laughs too. On a less related topic, I've had success using "I bet you can't control your dreams." as an opener.