Description

How to Tell a Story

Turn a real experience into a meaningful story.

You have a story to tell. Maybe it’s something funny that happened, an embarrassing moment, a memorable trip, a difficult decision, or an experience that changed you.

But how do you turn what happened into an actual story?

How to Tell a Story is a beginner-friendly, step-by-step workbook that shows you how.

Using short lessons and practical exercises, you’ll learn the basic structure behind a good story and use that structure to build one of your own.

In this workbook, you’ll learn how to:

• Establish a setting that puts your reader in the scene
• Give your character something they want
• Create a problem and build rising conflict
• Identify the turning point—the moment everything changes
• Write a satisfying resolution
• Recognize what changed as a result of the experience
• Put all five elements together into a complete story

You won’t just read about storytelling. You’ll practice it.

Each section takes about 15 minutes, making this workbook easy to work through a little at a time. By the end, you’ll have the basic structure and a complete paragraph based on an experience of your own.

Storytelling isn’t just for writers.

The skills in this workbook can also help you:

• Tell a better story in a presentation
• Answer interview questions
• Write a memorable social media post
• Share an experience at work
• Tell someone about a trip
• Write a memoir
• Connect with other people

No novel required. No complicated writing theory. Just a simple structure and a story worth telling.

How to Tell a Story is part of the Writing Foundations Series from Grand Slam Communication—practical workbooks designed to build stronger writing and communication skills, one skill at a time.