How to Tell a True Tale: Neil Gaiman on What Makes a Great Personal Story
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How to Tell a True Tale: Neil Gaiman on What Makes a Great Personal Story
As Anaïs Nin wrote, “When we go deeply into the personal, we go beyond the personal. We achieve something that is collective.”
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How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
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That’s how we find what we need: We start with ourselves. Our personal experiences. Our observations of the world. Our successes and failures and everything in between. From there, we find stories, and from those stories, we can find the content we need to connect, communicate, and convince. Almost all my metaphors are personal stories or
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In his introduction to The Anchor Essay Annual, 1998, essayist Phillip Lopate put it this way: “To speak incessantly about the wounds or triumphs of I and My Family can get pretty tiresome; the trick is to project one’s experience on the page in such an enhanced, objectified way that it acquires, or merges with, a larger significance.” “I” is
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