Storyworthy : engage, teach, persuade, and change your life through the power of storytelling
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- ISBN: 9781608685486 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
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xviii, 348 pages ; 22 cm - Publisher: Novato, California : New World Library, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
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! |
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Subject: | Storytelling |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Castlegar Public Library | 372.677 DIC (Text) | 35146002081479 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-07-30 |