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How to Tell a Story

Disciplines:
storytelling
personal
craft
storytelling/narrative

Summary

The Moth's 2022 guide to personal storytelling — distilling 25 years of live storytelling expertise into practical guidance for crafting and performing personal narratives.

Core Contribution

Creates the definitive guide to personal storytelling craft — How to Tell a Story distills The Moth's coaching methodology (finding the story's spine, stakes, and emotional truth) into practical guidance that captures the institutional knowledge behind the world's most influential storytelling organization.

Historical Influences

25 years of Moth storytelling Personal narrative tradition

Intellectual Lineage

The Moth team Crown

Allied Works

The Moth Radio HourStoryworthy

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Storytelling coaching and education

Intellectual Posterity

How to Tell a Story Moth storytelling methodology

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