The Best Story Ever Told: Improv Strategies to Get Creative, Sell That Story, and Keep Your Audience on Edge

The Best Story Ever Told: Improv Strategies to Get Creative, Sell That Story, and Keep Your Audience on Edge
ISBN-10
1642504653
ISBN-13
9781642504651
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2021-03-16
Publisher
Mango
Author
Corey Rosen

Description

Get to the Gold: The Best Story You Ever Told Handbook is a laugh-out-loud, 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 Get to the Gold, 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 the sale, land the client, propose a toast or impress their date Based on the author's years of teaching and hosting more than 105 "Moth" shows, Get to the Gold: The Best Story You Ever Told Handbook 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, Get to the Gold 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. Get to the Gold 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. Get to the Gold: The "Best Story You Ever Told" Handbook provides anyone with the skills they'll need to enthrall and entertain, telling their own stories with confidence.