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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

While everyone tells stories in their own way, here are some resources that can be helpful in organizing and presenting thoughts in a way that makes them easily accessible.

Resources on How to Tell Your Own Tales

Telling Stories from Our Lives
www.usu.edu/~oralhist/tsfol.html

How to tell Stories to Children and Some Stories to Tell
www.bookvalley.com/cgibin/bv?b=157

Course on How to Become a Better Storyteller
www.creatingthe21stcentury.org/Steve19-being-better-storyteller.html



Books on Telling Your Own Stories

The Parents' Guide to Storytelling: How to Make Up New Stories and Retell Old Favorites, by Margaret Read MacDonald.

The Family Storytelling Handbook: How to Use Stories, Anecdotes, Rhymes, Handkerchiefs, Paper, and Other Objects to Enrich Your Family Traditions, by Anne Pellowski and Lynn Sweat

How to Tell Stories to Children, by Sara C. Bryant

Scrapbook Storytelling: Save Family Stories and Memories With Photos, Journaling and Your Own Creativity, by Joanna Campbell Slan

The Storytelling Coach: How to Listen, Praise, and Bring Out People's Best, by Dough Lipman and Jay O'Callahan

Storytelling Tips: How to Love, Learn, and Relate a Story, by Duane Hutchinson

Awakening the Hidden Storyteller: How to Build a Storytelling Tradition in Your Family, by Robin Moore

The Power of Personal Storytelling: Spinning Tales to Connect With Others, by Jack Maguire

What's So Funny?: How to Get Humor and Good Storytelling into Your Speeches and Presentations, by Cherie Kerr and Sim Middleton

Children's Stories and How to Tell Them, by Woutrina Agatha Bone

Tell Me a Story: Stories for Grandchildren and How to Tell Them: by Charlie Shedd, et al.