Showing titles in Art of Storytelling

Center of the YOUniverse is an out-of-this-world spectacle starring Tituss Burgess and Jane Krakowski with music, laughter, and (probably) the salvation of humanity from its self-inflicted doom. Unaware of just how brightly the other one shines, Tituss and Jane will attempt the impossible: a double-booking. In a unique blend of song and storytelling, they’ll stop at nothing to upstage each other and steal the spotlight…until they realize the true purpose of being ridiculously attractive and having immeasureble talent: to unite and heal the world.

With The Narrative Therapy Workbook for Self-Esteem as your guide, you'll embark on a healing journey of writing and reflection to rediscover your genuine truth and supercharge your well-being.

How to Tell a Story is the guide you need! We will teach you how to tell a story in seven easy steps. This guide is designed to provide you with all the tools you need in a concise, easy-to-understand format that will answer all your burning questions and get you on your way to successful storytelling.

You've probably already realized that storytelling is ubiquitous today and that it's hard to imagine marketing without it. In this guide, you will first get an overview of what storytelling actually is and why it is an important part of a successful marketing strategy. In addition, you will learn in the theory section how a classic story is structured, to what extent this structure can be integrated into business practice and what alternatives there are.

What would life be like if you believed that every crisis is a blessing, that you're guided to meet the people who cross your path, and that everything happens for a reason? Deepak Chopra examines this topic with John Demartini, an internationally acclaimed speaker whose motivational programs...

Horror Podcasting argues that podcasting, as an aural medium, is about the mind. Horror is an inward-style of storytelling, and yet the reception of the podcast can be an embodied form of listening. This intersection creates conditions for a subject/listener collapse (which results in immersion)...

Improv instructor and writer Jorjeana Marie presents the first book to harness the creative power of improvisation exercises to help both aspiring and seasoned authors defeat writer's block and generate new ideas. Suffering from writer's block and inner critics? Having trouble generating ideas...

"Writing is structure,” William Goldman said, but too often aspiring writers plunge into their work without grasping this fundamental principle. Story structure is one of the most important concepts for a writer to understand - and ironically, one of the least frequently taught. In this book, New York Times best-selling author William Bernhardt explains the elements that make stories work, using examples spanning from Gilgamesh to The Hunger Games.

Every time we think ahead, we are crafting a story. Every daily plan and every political vision, social movement, scientific hypothesis, business proposal, and technological breakthrough starts with “what if?” Linking causes to effects, considering hypotheticals and counterfactuals, asking how other people will react: these are the essence of narrative. So why do we keep overlooking story’s importance to intelligence in favor of logic?

Unlock the gifts and medicine of storytelling as a tool for healing yourself, your community, and the planet. Do you carry a story inside you—one that stirs beneath the surface, whispering to be told? Are you a story catcher, inspired to gather and tell the stories of this time? Or perhaps you...

Exploring the parallels between video games and the world’s most exciting, innovative spaces, this sequel to the groundbreaking Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds explains how the same techniques that pull players into games for hours at a time can be employed to draw participants into immersive experiences. Join Margaret Kerrison as she guides our next generation of immersive storytellers on a deep dive into the creative possibilities of this new realm of storytelling.

In five autobiographical vignettes, Charlayne Woodard tells the moving and inspirational tale of her African-American family through three generations of love, struggle, and triumph.

Actor and philanthropist Jeremy Renner’s life was changed forever when he lived through a near-death incident on New Year’s Day 2023. In his memoir, My Next Breath, he recounts the accident, his recovery, and the lessons he took from such a harrowing ordeal. Renner discusses his experience recording the emotional moments in his audiobook, his outlook on his life and career, and the RennerVation Foundation with Audible Editor Katie.

One part of John Waters’s iconic Trash Trilogy, Flamingos Forever is a dark-comedy screenplay about a drag queen trying to retain her title of “Filthiest Person in the World.” Listen as Waters himself acts out each role! Fifteen years after the events of Pink Flamingos, Babs Johnson...

In vier schillernden »personal essays« schreibt Elena Ferrante darüber, wie sie Leserin geworden ist und wie Autorin, welche Kämpfe sie austragen musste und austrägt und welchen ihrer Instinkte sie beim Schreiben folgt. Es geht um Einflüsse und Vorbilder, um Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Elsa Morante, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann und um die Frage, wie es gelingt, über die Menschen zu schreiben und über die Welt, sozusagen wirklichkeitsgetreu – und was das eigentlich heißen kann: weibliches Schreiben.

He was dressing low-profile, but it was definitely him: red skin, horns, barbed tail, cloven hoofs, black goatee. He was unmistakable. Satan was buying soy milk and forty bucks' worth of unleaded fuel. In a small town two miles north of Hell, our deadbeat narrator spots Satan filling up his red...

As an award-winning host of NPR’s All Things Considered, Ari Shapiro knows the power of storytelling better than most. And the longer he’s worked in the field, the more convinced he’s become of storytelling’s primal importance. In 12 fascinating lessons, this master of the craft reveals the storytelling secrets he’s learned over the course of his career as a reporter and performer, from finding a good story and choosing the right characters to conducting interviews and even delivering a story effectively out loud.

'Collins remains the most companionable of poetic companions.' – The New York Times Billy Collins’s poetry collection Dog Show celebrates the joy of our canine best friends, honouring the love we feel for the animals who play such vital roles in our lives. In twenty-five poems, Collins...

I feel like I'm on a boat sailing to some island where I don't know anybody. I'm on a boat someone is operating and we aren't in touch. So begins David Milch's urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch's life seems destined to echo that...

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