Fourteen steps to an unforgettable story

1. Find your story
2. Push through the story
3. Envision the scene with present-day feelings and concern
4. Tell the story from the view of someone at the scene
5. Establish the story's one central truth
6. Find a memory hook
7. Tell a story within a story
8. Plan your first words
9. Know how it ends
10. Research the facts
11. Eliminate needless details
12. Add descriptions that will bring life to the story
13. Include audience participation
14. Arrange practice audiences

from The Art of Storytelling by John Walsh