Summary Of 'Improving Your Storytelling'

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Reading Quiz Three
Discussing the importance of breaking down the meaning in telling a story, an excerpt from Improving Your Storytelling, also explains how the story can be portrayed differently by the interpreted meaning. The meaning can be written as the acronym ‘MIT,’ or the most important thing. The MIT can be interpreted by telling, and when retelling tone and emphasis can make it that others will walk away with the same general meaning inferred. The chapter also discusses that the meaning can also be directly shared with the audience before, during, or at the end of the story. The secondary chapter follows up on the first, with the way in which the story can be outlined (mapping out the scenes) with words or in diagrams. However, with

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