“Your Story, Well Told: Creative Strategies to Develop and Perform Stories that Wow an Audience” is a laugh-out-loud, funny, practical and inspiring manual to develop true stories from concept through presentation.
Storytelling champion and master teacher Corey Rosen inspires speakers, authors, and even shy people, to get on stage and tell their life stories. In “Your Story, Well Told,” he shares techniques from improvisational theatre to help people bring out the best version of any true story. From brainstorming and development to performance, this guidebook will give readers the bump in confidence they need to make that sale, land that client, propose that toast or impress that date. Who knows? Maybe even all at the same time!
Based on the author’s 10 years of teaching and hosting more than 105 “Moth” shows, “Your Story, Well Told: Creative Strategies to Develop and Perform Stories that Wow an Audience” helps people tease ideas along, introducing a variety of structures and editing approaches to bring out the inner life of any true story. Through brainstorming and development to performance and memorization techniques, this guidebook from a Master Storyteller can inspire anyone to get on stage and tell their life stories.
Designed for all ages and skill levels, “Your Story, Well Told” will teach readers how to mine their own lives for material that will win over audiences ranging in size from one person to the thousands who gather at major storytelling events like the ones on the radio. Whether readers aspire to publish an essay, win a contest, advance their careers or tell better stories at parties, this book gives them all the tools they’ll need.
Using broadly-tested improv exercises, readers will learn to play delightful games proven to stimulate creativity without feeling foolish. Then, through quick, easy, and fun lessons, readers will learn to analyze and build stories that will keep an audience on the edge of their seats. “Your Story, Well Told” is loaded with true tales of performance triumphs (and disasters) from the lives of the celebrated author and his students. Readers will also be given resources for putting on their own showcases.
“Your Story, Well Told: Creative Strategies to Develop and Perform Stories that Wow an Audience” provides anyone with the skills they’ll need to enthrall and entertain, telling their own stories with confidence.
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