Haritosh SrivastavFounder & Head Coach, Confident Storytelling Hub

What I Learned from Struggling with Frameworks for Years

27 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this reflective monologue, the speaker recounts their initial curiosity about how storytellers construct narratives from the smallest elements. They describe a series of bi‑daily challenges that forced them to repeatedly practice and experiment with different storytelling techniques. Through these iterative exercises, the speaker discovers a wide range of versatile styles for assembling stories and gains insight into where to source narrative material and how to present it. Ultimately, they conclude that while adhering to a structured framework can feel demanding, it also brings a rewarding sense of beauty and clarity to the storytelling process.

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So I want to tell you something. On the first day, if you remember, I asked you one question that, uh, do you give any, uh, I mean, tools how people are actually telling the story from a smallest part to— I mean, how they are doing that? That was the question in my mind on the first day. With completion of the challenges you have given in every 2 days and give us— given us a topic At the end of finishing, I was wondering— I asked the question and now I know the answer, that how people are doing it. So those challenges have actually given so many versatile style of telling a story. At the end, I was thinking that from where I should get my story on this, on this, and how I'm going to say this, but at the end I realized that I can do this. I mean, giving a framework and do it accordingly is challenging, but it is actually beautiful to do.