Actually, it is fascinating to hear someone else’s process… especially from a toolmaker. (For me, the process is more intuitive). Buck has a great toolkit– for him– I’m not sure it will work for everyone. (”Exaggeration” may describe exactly the rhetorical tool Buck chooses to use at one moment in a story, but his specific choice of what attribute to exaggerate and when to add it to the story, is unique to Buck. (And Buck’s delivery is a big part of what makes his humor work, and not everyone should try to tell like Buck… they need their own style.)

I wonder if any of your listeners have applied Buck’s tools to their work with crafting stories for young audiences (since Buck does not primarily tell to children).

Using again the example of the tool of exaggeration… the choice of what to exaggerate will be different if your audience consists of six-year-olds, or teenagers, or adults.