The Story Story

<p><em>The Story Story</em> is a non-fiction book wrapped in a novel. You’ll find practical storytelling advice and techniques explore the thinking and feeling behind stories learn how stories flow through your psyche like blood through your veins and find inspiration to rewrite the stories of your life and business.</p><p>If you’re a writer or speaker you’ll find ideas in this book you can use. If your language is business or marketing or science you may be surprised to find that your stories follow the same rules as those of your literary colleagues. The same is true if you’re a visual musical or technological storyteller—or even a cook or a dancer.</p><p>Too many books explain <em>why</em> stories are powerful tools for engagement and <em>how</em> to use storytelling techniques to forge stronger connections with colleagues clients friends and family members. But these books are <em>about</em> stories. As insightful as some of them may be few of them <em>are</em> stories unto themselves—an oversight this book aims to remedy.</p><p>The narrative describes a group of diverse characters who encounter an unlikely teacher in a remote and beautiful wilderness. Together they look into the sea out into space and deep within themselves to discover what stories are why they’re important and how they work.</p>