The storyworthy Learning Zone

Here's a bit of lunacy:

I was working with a storyteller who will be performing onstage next month. She's nervous. The audience will be sizable, and she's never performed in a setting like this...

A storyteller recently asked me for a specific strategy to build suspense in a story.

My answer (and thus my definition of suspense) was simple:

Don’t say everything. Say some of the thing...

The best strategies for delivering a talk from the stage. I also include lessons I have used to help others craft, prepare, rehearse, and deliver their talks. These lessons will empower you to...

Back in the spring of 2016, five years into my storytelling career, I won a Moth GrandSLAM championship in Somerville, MA.

I told the story of my decision to confess to a crime I did not commit...

I often say that everyone should learn to tell a better story for lots and lots of reasons.

My TEDx Talk - What Is a Story? ( Watch it here) - offers five of those reasons.

Storytelling can enrich...

I spotted this sign at the wedding of my former student, sitting atop the bar.

I love it so much.

Designed by the same couple who advised guests to respond to their wedding invitation by a certain...

I don't follow the British royal family and their machinations in any way - nor do I think anyone really should - but I've been unable to avoid the news of Prince Harry's new tell-all memoir.

The...

There are many reasons to be nervous onstage. One of the more popular reasons offered - and possibly the only reason I've ever heard someone offer - is that people are nervous about public speaking...

When it comes to humor, I teach 25 easy-to-use strategies to write jokes, develop humor, and make people laugh.

One of my favorites is something I call “Definitions.”

Simply put, define...

A client told me a story that I thought was emblematic of everything I teach:

His company recently purchased a facility in Europe, so he traveled there to visit the campus and meet the folks now...

A reader shared this with me:

Our school district hired a new superintendent last year. One of the first things he did was declare that the first snow day would be the only real snow day of the...