In the Chillest Land (Storyteller Series Book 2)

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Saw tools to change the ways buildings breathed and moved, how people interacted. I saw those ideas crushed, time and time again, under a lack of understanding. The same things kept happening. Some people would get caught up in tiny details; others would miss the big picture. Sometimes a great idea got buried under the weight of myopic details.

In addition, your audience has different styles of decision-making. Some leaders make decisions immediately, swept up in ideas and willing to go along. Other leaders need to ruminate and process. Knowing how to explain your idea in a way that is compelling, clear, and persuades others to adopt it and give you money for it!

Tired designers kept arriving at brilliant solutions. They also faced the challenge of explaining themselves. Communication is the art of getting your ideas heard, shared, understood, and adopted.

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Designing and communicating are separate, but highly related fields. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention. If you want to up your game and grow your business, elevate your platform, or become a better storyteller — read these books.

18 Storytelling Formulas You Can Use Right Away

The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert Cialdini. The Elements of Persuasion: Stories might seem simple, but understanding how to do them effectively is a skill to master. Maxwell and Dickman show examples of storytelling across every industry, outlining five basic components — passion, a hero, an antagonist, a moment of awareness, and transformation — that form the critical elements of a persuasive story, pitch, or speech.

With essays on persuasion, influence, and understanding conversational style, I learned more about understanding gender dynamics and understanding leadership styles in 40 pages than I have browsing hundreds of internet click-bait links. Destined to be a classic.

How do people become online influencers? They do more than provide content: As a writer, my favorite books on writing lean towards the introspective, the habit-building, and the people who devote time to this craft. Here are my favorites:. Want to tap into your inner voice? Julia Cameron leads a week program that takes you through all the feelings you have while becoming a maker, a creative, an artist.

Cameron is here to guide you — and to remind you to play, because play is the outlet and source of creativity. The War of Art: What holds us back? This pithy and succinct book details the enemy that we all deal with — inner resistance. Resistance shows up in every form, from convincing to conniving to flattering to maddening.

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How do you overcome Resistance? Great on a shelf for a little reminder every few days. Am I really an artist? Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury.

Here are three quotes from this book by legendary Ray Bradbury: The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

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Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott. A book on writing and life, and all the zany-crazy-personality quirks in between. Fluttering between self-deprecation and frank honesty, Lamott tells the story of the difficulty of writing and getting out of our own way. Still Writing, by Dani Shapiro. On Writing, by Stephen King.

Writers writing about writing is so wonderful — you see their tools, ideas, and childhood and work, all mixed together in a story well told. Show Your Work, by Austin Kleon.

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This book is about making things, just making them — and about sharing them. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow. Resonate, by Nancy Duarte. Racked with guilt and doubt, he lingers over her memory, refusing to let her go. He imagines and reimagines the moment she slipped away from him as he searches for her behind every rock, in every bush, in every wave. Why must one man perish while another survives?

How does losing a sibling at birth affect life? And what are the chances that a fish lost and a cat found will bring our two protagonists together?

In A Far Far Away Land: 18 Proven Storytelling Formulas That Will 2x Word-Of-Mouth For Your Brand

This sweeping tale of intertwined destinies takes the reader from present-day Montreal to war-torn Italy and back again , with a gruelling march through the frozen Eastern Front of World War II along the way. All the while, secrets burn behind every pair of eyes we meet.

The new publishing venture QC Fiction, founded last year, seems poised to change this state of affairs. Their approach is both modest and bold: If the two books under review are any indication, QC Fiction is already well on its way to changing how readers think about the Canadian literary landscape. However, I have come to think of QC Fiction as a major league baseball pitcher who has a number of different pitches in his repertoire.

Songs for the Cold of Heart

• Silent Intruder: Revisited
• Loser Takes All
• Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
• Light of Bethlehem
• Der son cubano. Seine Charakteristik und Rolle als transkulturelles Element im musikgeschichtlichen Kontext Kubas (German Edition)
• Betty Zane: American Western Fiction (Illustrated)
• Word and Self Estranged in English Texts, 1550–1660