Develop and deliver a narrative, storytelling speech. A narrative is a telling of events. Make a 3-5 minute personal experience speech. Consider experiences that you have had that were interesting, humorous, suspenseful, different, educational, revealing, or somewhat dramatic. To build your narrative, select the experience you want to tell, gather the materials necessary to help you make the point of the story, organize the material, and then practice telling the story a few times until the key ideas are firmly in mind