Storyworks
Subtitle: a handbook for leaders, writers and speakers
By: Jane Bailey Bain
Publisher: Business Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Winchester, UK
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781782799870; 9781782799863
Subjects: Storytelling; Public speaking; Leadership; Interviewing; Technique; Art de conter; Art de parler en public
Description: <Span><span>A practical handbook on how to tell stories. Includes stories and creative exercises to inspire, inform and entertain.</span></span>
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Part I: The Power Of Story; Tell Me A Story; In The Beginning; Making Meaning; It's Not Personal; Tips Of The Trade; Beginning, Middle, End; Studying Structure; Building Suspense; Rule of Threes; Five Finger Technique; Simile or Metaphor; Voice and Viewpoint; Developing Dialogue; Archetypal Figures; Doing The Work; Part II: Tales For Telling; The Princess; Elf Maid; A Real Princess; Sulky Sedna; Poor Turkey Girl; Snowmaiden; Exercise: Awaken The Senses; The Clever Girl; Margarita's Dress; Love You Like Salt; The Bear's Bride; title: The Waters of LifeSafe and Sound; Exercise: Show, Not Tell!; The Good Mother; Just Make Do; Children of the World; The Wisdom of Solomon; The Trials of Rhiannon; Naomi and Ruth; Exercise: Feel The Love; The Wild Woman; The Selkie; Pele's Little Sister; The Rock Demoness; The Frog Bride; Chang E in the Moon; Exercise: Walk This Way!; The Grandam; The Seamstress; Give and Take; A Good Woman; Lucy's Locket; All Crazy Now; World's End; Exercise: Working From Memory; The Witch; Value for Money; Pay the Price; Lost and Found; Ceridwen's Cauldron; Mala; Exercise: Feeling Tenses; The Noble Youth; title: Good MannersPrince of Thieves; Rama Wins His Bride; The Gordian Knot; Theseus' Sword; Blame It On Adam; Exercise: Avoiding Adjectives; The Urchin; Bad Boy; Slowing Down the Sun; Monkey Business; King of the Birds; Mirror Mirror; Vice Versa; Scarface; Exercise: What's In My Pocket?; The Hero; Lifting the Sky; Rama and Sita; Sharpen the Axe; Perseus the Petrifier; Tom Saves Becky; Exercise: Whose Story Is This?; The Trickster; Perspectives; Jungle Safaris; Tobacco for Sharing; Fox and Crow; Tar Dolly; Bringing Back Fire; Thor's Lost Hammer; Exercise: Talk It Through; The Wise One; title: Aches and PainsPerfect World; The Old Bedouin; The Natural Order; Weather Vane; The Old Fisherman; Hiawatha the Unifier; Good St Nick; As You Find It; Exercise: Few Words; The Ogre; Burning the Books; Over and Out; The Rats of Hamlyn; They Walk Among Us; A Lot to Ask; An Appointment; The Good Host; Exercise: Feel The Beat; Stories For Sharing; Meats of the Ear; Schezerade; Stone Soup; Exercise: The Story Circle; Part III: Practical Resources; Telling Your Story; A Story Session; Tips For Storytelling; Story Worksheet; Creating Characters; Archetypal Features; Contemporary Figures; title: Character WorksheetBusiness Applications of Stories; Bibliography