You don't have to be a professional storyteller to tell a good story. And we all do tell stories constantly to our friends, our families, even our co-workers. For our Life Kit series, NPR's Elise Hu ...

We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Screenwriters have long mined Aristotle’s “Poetics” for craft tips, but at last someone has thought to update it for the ...

Elise Engler is a fine artist and educator whose artistic practice involves a narrative investigation of the world as seen through its innumerable, but countable, individual components, assembled in ...

If we were tasked with explaining some of our species-defining concepts to alien visitors, we’d probably tell them stories. No dictionary definition of love, joy, regret, or grief encapsulates the ...

Stories awaken possibility because they inspire curiosity and help us imagine what might be possible. Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the great science fiction writers, wrote stories to “dislodge my mind, ...

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Is it worth investing time and money (independently or with the help of an agency) into getting your story straight? Here’s my perspective as the chief executive of a storytelling agency. Businesses ...