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STORYTELLING STEP BY STEP
Marsh Cassady, PhD
Paper, $19.95
156 pages, 5½” x 8½”
ISBN 0-89390-183-0
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Whether you tell stories to a large audience or to your grandchildren, you
have to know how to keep their attention. Any ol' story isn’t good
enough. Is it a story you like telling? Does it interest your listeners? Does
the story you’re telling match the purpose you have for telling it?
Storytelling Step by Step is your storytelling handbook. It tells you
how to choose a story, then learn and develop it. It explains how to adapt
your voice for a particular audience, and takes an in-depth look at
the use of voice, gesture and props for enhancing your storytelling. Plus
you can put theory into practice right in this book. Using his own stories as
examples, the author asks you to change the point of view, find the theme
or adapt the stories as if you were going to tell them to your own
audience. By the time you finish this book, you will have stories ready to
tell!
Reviews
“This book has the best, most complete definition of storytelling I
have ever read. It is an informative guide, chock-full of stories (23 in all!)
just waiting to be read.”
— Harlynne Geisler, storyteller, and editor of The Story Bag
Newsletter
“Storytelling Step by Step is a must for persons ... involved in
education, for parents who consider the creative development of their
children’s imaginations important, for clergy who seek to enliven their
preaching and for anyone who feels a storyteller inside struggling to get out.
The book is a welcome contribution to one of the oldest and most important
art forms.”
— James L. Henderschedt, Lutheran pastor, storyteller, and author
of The Magic Stone and The Topsy-Turvy Kingdom
“I especially like the guiding path Cassady set for his readers. The
author presumes the reader is a novice in the art of storytelling ... The
stories are intriguing and entertaining — but that’s not all; the
stories are part of a lesson plan and exercise that allows the reader to grow
and mature ...”
— Lou Ruoff, Catholic pastor, storyteller, and author of No
Kidding, God, Where Are You?
About the Author
Marsh Cassady earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. at Kent State University.
He has been a college professor, high school teacher, newspaper writer
and musician. His main attention, however, is the theatre. He has directed
and acted in more than 100 plays. He also gives workshops on fiction
writing and playwriting. His other books include Playwriting Step by
Step and Acting Step by Step.
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