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A review by vertellerpaul
Do/ Story/: How to Tell Your Story So the World Listens by Bobette Buster
4.0
If some storytelling books are heavy four course meals (looking at you, Robert McKee), this is a tiny Belgian chocolate. Its center is a short, but very useful list of tips for telling personal stories. This is coated in a lovely layer of ... stories. These serve as examples, but are also inspirational in their own right. The illustrations, quotes and overall production values of the book are wonderful as well.
This book is about telling your own, personal stories. Much is applicable to telling traditional tales as well, but you'll need to do some transferring of the ideas to that context.
The exercises in the book tend to verge towards therapy sessions, even though Buster denies that this is their purpose. It presupposes that human lives can be perceived as a series of defining moments, thresholds, transformational experiences. Slow developments don't make the best stories, but in my experience they do make up the major part of life. Their is no place for those slow transformations in this book, let alone for lives in which nothing much changes at all.
Even if you (like me) don't agree with that premise, this book is still a lovely little gem, well written, engaging, useful and fun to read.
This book is about telling your own, personal stories. Much is applicable to telling traditional tales as well, but you'll need to do some transferring of the ideas to that context.
The exercises in the book tend to verge towards therapy sessions, even though Buster denies that this is their purpose. It presupposes that human lives can be perceived as a series of defining moments, thresholds, transformational experiences. Slow developments don't make the best stories, but in my experience they do make up the major part of life. Their is no place for those slow transformations in this book, let alone for lives in which nothing much changes at all.
Even if you (like me) don't agree with that premise, this book is still a lovely little gem, well written, engaging, useful and fun to read.