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Storyworthy :  engage, teach, persuade, and change your life through the power of storytelling  Cover Image Book Book

Storyworthy : engage, teach, persuade, and change your life through the power of storytelling

Dicks, Matthew (author.).

Summary: "A five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story — and why doing so matters. Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life." --

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  • ISBN: 9781608685486 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: print
    xviii, 348 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Novato, California : New World Library, 2018.

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General Note:
Includes index.
"36 time Moth StorySlam champion & 5-time GrandSLAM champion" --Cover.
Formatted Contents Note: Part I. Finding your story -- Chapter 1. My Promise to You -- Chapter 2. What Is a Story? (and What Is the Dinner Test?) -- Chapter 3. Homework for Life -- Chapter 4. Dreaming at the end of Your Pen -- Story Break: Storytelling Instruction Can Apparently Be Romantic -- Chapter 5. First Last Best Worst: Great for Long Car Rides, First Dates, and Finding Stories -- Part II.Crafting your story -- Chapter 6. 'Charity Thief' -- Chapter 7. Every Story Takes Only Five Seconds to Tell (and Jarassic Park Wasn't a Movie about Dinosaurs) -- Chapter 8. Finding Your Beginning (I'm Also About to Forever Ruin Most Movies and Many Books for You) -- Story Break: Thirteen Rules for an Effective (and Perhaps Even Inspiring) Commencement Address -- Chapter 9. Stakes: Five Ways to Keep Your Story Compelling (and Why There Are Dinosaurs in Jarassic Park) -- Story Break: Zombie Brother -- Chapter 10. The Five Permissible Lies of True Storytelling -- Story Break: Doubt Is the Enemy of Every Storyteller -- Chapter 11. Cinema of the Mind (Also Known as 'Where the Hell Are You?') -- Chapter 12. The Principle of But and Therefore -- Story Break: Storytelling Makes You Just Like Family -- Chapter 13. 'This Is Going to Suck' -- Chapter 14. The Secret to the Big Story: Make It Little -- Story Break: The Return of Mathieu -- Chapter 16. Milk cans and Baseballs, Babies and Blenders: Simple, Effective Ways to Be Funny in Storytelling (Even If You're Not Funny at All) -- Chapter 17. Finding the Frayed Ending of Your Story (or, What the Hell Did That Mean?) -- Story Break: Reconnecting with My Mean Old Elementary School Principal -- Part III. Telling your story -- Chapter 18. the Present Tense Is King (but the Queen Can Play a Role Too -- Story Break: A Storyteller and a Magician -- Chapter 19. The Two Ways of Telling a Hero Story (or, How to Avoid Sounding Like a Douchebag) -- Story Break: 'Fine' Is Apparently Not a Good Way o Describe My Sex Life -- Chapter 20. Storytelling Is Time Travel (If You Don't Muck It Up) -- Story Break: I Berate Storytellers at the Worse Moments -- Chapter 21. Words to Say, Words to Avoid -- Story Break: The Weather Sucks. So Don't Talk about it -- Chapter 22. Time to Perform (Onstage, in the Boardroom, on a Date, or at the Thanksgiving Table) -- Story Break: The Solitude of the Storyteller -- Chapter 23. Why Did You Read This Book? Become a Superhero!
Subject: Storytelling

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