Improving Your Storytelling: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell Stories in Work or Play

Improving Your Storytelling: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell Stories in Work or PlayThe first steps in storytelling are often easy, because we tell stories informally every day. Once you take storytelling into the more formal contexts of performance or occupational uses, however, you may be faced with challenges you hadn't anticipated. You need information that goes beyond the basics. And you need it in a form that does not just tell you what to do but helps you make your own informed decisions. This book is meant for the reader who

The first steps in storytelling are often easy, because we tell stories informally every day. Once you take storytelling into the more formal contexts of performance or occupational uses, however, you may be faced with challenges you hadn't anticipated. You need information that goes beyond the basics. And you need it in a form that does not just tell you what to do but helps you make your own informed decisions. This book is meant for the reader who has already begun to tell stories and is ready to learn more about the art. Instead of rules to follow, it gives you a series of frameworks that encourage you to think on your feet. Doug Lipman has written and taught extensively on the art of storytelling. With the same generosity and warmth that characterize his workshops, he considers the teller's relationship to the story, the teller's relationship to the audience, and the transfer of imagery in a medium that is simultaneously visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: August House Publishers
Published: 12/15/2005
ISBN: 9780874835304
Pages: 219
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.42w x 0.59d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/24/1999 pg. 60
Booklist 07/01/1999 pg. 1957
Library Journal 07/01/1999 pg. 106
School Library Journal 02/01/2000 pg. 147