I started adding stories into tricks, I think stories can make a trick better or worse.
Any tips/ideas/books to help this?

I enjoyed this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwiB9JTWNg8

Check out "the words we use forum" below

Thank you

Sel,

Check out www.suzmagic.com and www.pophaydn.com , two of the great storyteller magicians out there today. Both have videos of their routines on the websites.

Enjoy and learn.

Hudson

Hi Sel! Welcome to the Café!

I'm gonna share a secret with ya! Story telling? You will LOVE this book! And, it's only $35!

http://www.leapinglizardsmagic.com/aaa_n......ales.htm

This completely changed my magic! I only wish I had discoverd this in the 70's!

Doug

One of my favorites is by a well known magician

The subject is not magic tricks.

It's called Zen and the art of monologue.

The closer I get to me the more I can connect with my audience.

That occurs even when the me character is playing a different character( s)
in my
Dr. Laugh show.

Marc DeSouza has a wonderful DVD devoted to storytelling magic.

In my opinion Paul Daniels is one of the best magicians when it comes to story telling around a piece of magic!
A few months ago he released a DVD-Set called "Bravura" (http://www.worldmagicshop.com/bravura-by-paul-daniels-and-luis-de-matos/).
Of course it's not the cheapest product in the world, but one can take so much out of it! And I recommend it to everyone who wants to get an insight into Paul Daniel's way of thinking, how some of his greatest routines work - plus there is a whole DVD that just deals with presentation ( - see disc 4).
So with this DVD-Set you really can't go wrong!

Hope I could help you!
Alexander