Recounting. When you recount a story, you are giving an account of what happened. It often has a sense of going through the events in the order they occurred, like when you recount your day to someone.
Narrating. It's a common alternative as it directly refers to the act of telling a story, often in a more detailed and sequential way.
'Spinning a yarn' is also a way to say telling a story. It has a more informal and perhaps even a bit of a creative or fanciful connotation. Sailors used to spin yarns (tell stories) about their adventures at sea, often with a touch of exaggeration to make the story more exciting.
Some other names for telling a story include 'chronicle - making'. This is like creating a record or account in the form of a story, often with a sense of historical or sequential order. 'Fable - speaking' can also be a name, especially when the story has a moral or a lesson, like traditional fables. And 'anecdote - sharing' is another, which is more about sharing short, interesting stories from personal experiences or things one has heard.
Narrative, tale -telling, story -sharing.
Weaving a tale. It gives the image of carefully constructing a story, much like weaving a fabric. Each element of the story is like a thread that is carefully put together to create the whole.
First-person narrator, Third-person omniscient, Multiple narrators, Stream of consciousness.
Some common French transition words for telling a story are 'ensuite' (then), 'puis' (then, after that), 'après' (after). These words help to connect different parts of the story and make the flow more smooth.
For example, if the word is 'narrator'. In 'Pride and Prejudice', the narrator is an omniscient third - person who tells us about the lives of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. Another word could be 'protagonist'. In 'The Catcher in the Rye', Holden Caulfield is the protagonist and also the teller as he shares his experiences in his own voice. If we consider 'witness', in a crime - based story, a witness to a murder might be the one who tells the story to the police and then to the readers or viewers.
The four words could be 'narrator', 'protagonist', 'observer', 'witness'. The narrator is the one who formally tells the story, like in a book where the narrator might be omniscient or limited in knowledge. The protagonist can also be seen as a kind of teller in the sense that through their actions and experiences the story unfolds. An observer is someone who watches the events and can convey what they've seen. A witness is similar to an observer but often implies being present at a significant or unusual event and then telling about it.
It's two words. You have 'story', which is the content or account, and 'telling', which is the action or process of sharing that story. They work together but are separate.