Story Power: Secrets to Creating, Crafting, and Telling Memorable Stories (Verbal communication, Presentations, Relationships, How to influence people)
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Story Power: Secrets to Creating, Crafting, and Telling Memorable Stories (Verbal communication, Presentations, Relationships, How to influence people)
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Overview
“…learn how to bring your own stories to life on the page, on the stage, around a campfire, or a dinner table.” —Mary Jo McConahay, award-winning journalist
Winner 2020 Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction Writing/Publishing
CIBA I&I (Instructional & Insightful) Non-Fiction Awards Finalist
#1 New Release in Writing Researching & Publishing Guides
The art of telling stories has been around as long as humans. And in today’s noisy, techy, automated world, storytelling is not only prevalent―it’s vital. Whether you're interested in enlivening verbal communication, building your business brand, making presentations, sharing family wisdom, or performing on stage, Story Power shows you how to make use of a good story.
Tell your story. Telling stories is the most effective verbal communication―if you know how to use it. Story Power provides techniques for creating and framing personal stories alongside effective tips for telling them in any setting. Plus, this book models stories with unique storytelling examples, exercises, and prompts, as well as storytelling techniques for delivery in a spontaneous, authentic style.
Learn from the verbal communication experts. Story Power is an engaging, lively guide to the art of telling stories from author and librarian Kate Farrell, a seasoned storyteller and founder of the Word Weaving Storytelling Project. In Story Power, more than twenty skillful contributors with a range of diverse voices share their secrets to creating, crafting, and telling tales.
In this book discover:
- How to share your own coming-of-age stories and family folklore
- The importance of a personal branding story and storytelling marketing
- Seven Steps to Storytelling, along with helpful tools, organizers, and media options
Booklovers who have read Storyworthy, The Storyteller's Secret, Long Story Short, or the classic How to Win Friends & Influence People, will find Story Power to be a great read.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781642501971 |
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| Publisher: | Mango Media |
| Publication date: | 06/16/2020 |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Sales rank: | 661,627 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
She is author of Word Weaving: A Storytelling Workbook, 1980; co-author of a monograph, Effects of Storytelling: An Ancient Art for Modern Classrooms, 1982; author of Word Weaving: A Teaching Sourcebook, 1984; producer and co-author of a training videotape, “Word Weaving: The Art of Storytelling,” 1983, distributed by the University of California, Berkeley; and author of the professional book, Storytelling: A Guide for Teachers, Scholastic, 1991. She is also senior author of Storytelling in Our Multicultural World, an oral language development program for early childhood education, published by Zaner-Bloser Educational Publishers, 1994.
Farrell has edited and appeared in numerous anthologies of personal narratives. She is author of the fabulist novella, Strange Beauty, and a collection of short stories, Woman Wonder Tales. http://katefarrell.net/
She currently offers storytelling workshops to writers in CWC branches and Mechanics Institute Library and the San Francisco Public Library and hosts a weekly storytelling blog: http://www.storytellingforeveryone.net/
Susan Wittig Albert is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Eleanor (2016), about the intimate friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok; and A Wilder Rose (2014), about Rose Wilder Lane and the writing of the Little House books. Her award-winning fiction also includes mysteries in the China Bayles series, the Darling Dahlias, the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and a series of Victorian-Edwardian mysteries she has written with her husband, Bill Albert, under the pseudonym of Robin Paige. She has written two memoirs: An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days and Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, published by the University of Texas Press. Susan Albert is founder of the Story Circle Network, an international not-for-profit membership organization made up of thousands of women who want to document their lives and explore their personal stories through journaling, memoir, autobiography, personal essays, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, and mixed-media, based in Austin, Texas. Susan Wittig Albert is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and lives in the rugged Texas Hill Country, in the small town of Bertram, just northwest of Austin.
Read an Excerpt
Kate Farrell
My grandfather owned racehorses—not for the big time, and not even with a jockey. His sport was harness racing: Horses pulled a two-wheeled cart called a sulky with a driver. Grandfather raced in county fairs around the Midwest—starting in the 20s. Grandmother said he would not give up his horses in the Great Depression, and sacrificed all else to keep them.
One summer in the late 40s, my family visited our grandparents in Kewanee, Illinois, when I was eight years old, and my older brother ten. We found treasures in the attic, trophies of all the many wins, silver and gold plated loving cups, mounted horses, and platters. By that time, Grandfather had named a horse for each grandchild. But the one horse who was the runaway champion was named for me, Katie F. We were eager to see her race—and win.
At last, the day came, my brother and I rode with our grandparents to the county fair in Princeton, Illinois, to see the horse races and watch Katie F. We climbed up the stairs of the white, wooden grandstand and watched her race on the dusty, oval racing track, rounding the bend, one time, two times, and finally coming around the bend on the home stretch. We were jumping up and down in the bleacher seats, banging loudly, yelling over and over, "Come on, Katie F!" She came nearer to the stands and the finish line—in the lead. And she won! We shrieked.
After the race, I wandered away from the family to the stables. I searched for my horse by her stable sign, painted in gold letters on bright green, Katie F. She leaned out of the half door and I came closer, awestruck. I admired her shining, chestnut-brown coat, the powerful muscles of a standardbred. She towered over me. I dared not touch her outstretched nose, but came closer. She seemed to look right at me, and I heard her say without a sound, "You do that." I knew she meant for me to be like her, to win my race. She was my totem, my namesake.
After all these years, the only object that survived my grandfather's horseracing was that wooden, stable sign: Katie F. It has traveled from place to place; kept by different family members. Katie F. is our legend, the great-hearted spirit of a winner.
Table of Contents
Foreword 12
Introduction 20
Chapter 1 Spinning Straw into Gold 24
Childhood & Coming of Age 30
Adventure Stories 52
Trials & Challenges 75
Chapter 2 Stuff We Are Made Of 100
Defining Story 104
Signature Story 122
Personal Branding Story 139
Chapter 3 Family Stories 154
Family Folklore 159
Family Secrets & Shadows 177
Family Legacy 194
Chapter 4 Techniques & Delivery 216
Seven Steps to Storytelling 219
Delivery Techniques 225
Media Options 230
Tools & Organizers 231
Chapter 5 Heritage of Folklore 234
Folktale Motifs 239
Tale Types 243
Archetypes 248
Meet the Contributors 254
Acknowledgements 268
About the Author 269
What People are Saying About This
“The best thing about sharing stories from your life is that you are the author. If only you could craft your adventures, anecdotes, and memories into a memorable art form—you can with the tips and ideas offered in Story Power ! Kate Farrell holds your hand, offering guidance and encouraging you to develop your own stories and tell them anywhere and everywhere, from entertaining family and friends to storytelling performances. Story Power shows how crafting and telling stories is a winning combination.”
—Ruth Stotter, former director of the Dominican University Certificate-in-Storytelling program, Fulbright scholar, and recipient of the Lifetime Oracle Achievement Award from the National Association of Storytellers