Your story, well told by Corey Rosen¹

It was a fairly easy read and I finished it in about an hour. The goal of the book is to teach you how to tell a ‘personal story’ in a genre most closely associated with the The Moth. Overall I recommend the book - especially if you struggle to find “interestingness’ in your life or if you have something that happened to you that you wish to share with others. It includes specific techniques and worksheets to help you ideate and then structure your story. It pulls techniques from the field of writing, improv, and acting and teaches them in a very practical and straightforward way.

It definitely biases towards the specific type of “engaging, short form, mass-populace” story common at The Moth (or TED) but that doesn’t take away from its utilities of other formats.

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