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    Do Story: How to tell your story so the world listens.

    By Bobette Buster

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    About this ebook

    Today's world wants the story behind the story. Whether you have a company mission to share, an audience to entertain or a product to sell, we're more likely to engage and connect if you deliver a well-crafted story with an emotional core.


    Bobette Buster is a story consultant who works with and teaches at major studios including Pixar, Disney and Sony Animation and in top film programs all over the world. In this, her first book, she shares her 10 key principles of storytelling - as used by some of the world’s best storytellers - and helps you to apply them to your own. Find out:

    How to source, structure and shape your story

    Ways to discover its essence

    Why forming an emotional bond with your audience can take a story from good to great.


    So, whats your story?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Do Book Company
    Release dateJun 1, 2013
    ISBN9781907974106
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    • 3/5
      A nice little book that is easy to read and understand. There are ten steps to story telling, as Bobette Buster states, and lots of advice for telling a story. However, the examples given are from noted people who are famous in politics, history and business. What was promised was how to tell YOUR story. Having interesting stories about people you might meet everyday, such as teachers or truck drivers or grandmothers, would have been a better basis for the book. My mother wrote her memoirs as part of a project at her retirement home, and this was the type of thing I thought the author would show. The principles are good and the basic message is clear, it is just that explaining how Winston Churchill delivered nation-altering speeches fighting a war is not the same as teaching people how to tell the story of how grandmothers can fight the monsters under the bed of their three year old grandchildren. A short book demonstrating a skill is a good idea, and I like this one. However, the best advice in the book was given at the very end of the book by Benjamin Disraeli, who died in 1881, and who said: "Be amusing, never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones." Good story telling advice for the ages.
    • 4/5
      As a writer, I know that crafting a story is anything but simple! Bobette Buster takes what can seem to be an insurmountable task and breaks it down. In a short, tightly written manner Buster lays out simple steps that even a novice writer can find accessible. The author uses examples of notable figures to illustrate the ten principles of storytelling that she explores in her book. This work is a fantastic starting point that anyone can use to develop a story of their own and learn to share it with others.
    • 1/5
      If you are new to writing Do Story may provide you with useful information on how to write your own story. If you have written anything about yourself before, well, this book will frustrate you. You will continue to read page after page hoping for something new that never comes.I read the book through the first third and then began skimming because I had heard it all before.Only take the time to read this if you've never read another book about writing stories before. You will be disappointed otherwise.
    • 4/5
      Hmmm...mixed feels about this one. I love the idea of these little 'Do' series books. They feel good in your hand, they're gifty, accessible, and easily to read and digest. I'm not familiar with the author or her work, but this feels like a 'corporate-coach' style class on business storytelling - like the kind of 'story' that a CEO or founder of a business might develop to motivate and inspire. There are lots of examples, but mainly of business, political, or non-profit icons: Steve Jobs, Scott Harrison who founded Charity: Water, Winston Churchill, Yvon Chouinard founder of Patagonia, etc. It's not that these men and women aren't interesting and inspiring, but they aren't 'regular folks.' They had publicists, platforms and media willing to interview them, lots of influence, and a huge built-in audience.If you went to business school, nearly all the stories will be familiar to you.While there are ten essential elements of storytelling, they almost seem retroactively applied to the stories of famous people, not crafted forward so you can understand how the stories were built. Many of the essential story themselves are subjective--not all stories illustrate them well enough for them to be clear and some don't at all. There are exercises, but they feel a little woo woo and new age-y not honing the craft of story and writing. It's not a bad book, but it's not clear who the target is for these, exactly. It sounds like these are supposed to be the practical application lectures compared to the heady conceptual ideas shared in Ted. Great idea, but not quite right in execution just yet.If you're looking for a book to motivate and inspire you to develop your personal story, this may be a contender. If you're looking for inspiration from a famous person's story, pick up a biography. If you want a masterclass on how to develop your own story, there are other books that do it better.
    • 4/5
      As a writer, I know that crafting a story is anything but simple! Bobette Buster takes what can seem to be an insurmountable task and breaks it down. In a short, tightly written manner Buster lays out simple steps that even a novice writer can find accessible. The author uses examples of notable figures to illustrate the ten principles of storytelling that she explores in her book. This work is a fantastic starting point that anyone can use to develop a story of their own and learn to share it with others.
    • 2/5
      I was pretty excited about this book. I'm an amateur speaker and I was definitely interested in how to tell my own story and be more effective. I was about half and half on this book after reading it; for reviewer reader's benefit, I'll seperate the good and bad below. Of course I want to state that I could never write a book, so please accept this as constructive criticism only.Good: The book was overall easy to read and didn't feel overwhelming. It had enough content to help explain the Author's content, but also didn't appear or feel like a textbook or manual that would drive you to Zz's. It held my interest. I really liked the Author's 10 points and I have no doubt that she is a very successful teacher of this topic. I will definitely be pulling ideas from this read. I also found myself at times sucked into the stories she used as examples of good stories. I'm not to sure if this is because I'm a history and biography buff or her writing. I will assume it is both. I like that she used these to break up otherwise pure definition and disscussion of content. The parts I feel could improve: I have to be honest I felt a little lost the entire time I was reading the book. The chapters are labeled generally with one of her 10 tips for storytelling, but I couldn't seem to grasp anything outside of the basic concept of most of them. At times this was just due to thoughts not being more organized within the chapter I feel. Other times I think it was due to a little too much description without tie-ins bringing us back to the concept and I would forget what I was actually supposed to be focused on. So i often found myself in the middle or end of a chapter saying, wait what? And straining to review something earlier. Also, and maybe this is my own flaw, I felt there were a lot of words that I had to look up. I enjoy learning new words and do not mind looking up new ones while reading, but it got to the point in this book that I said "forget it" and just gave it my best guess. I felt like I was putting the story down every page. I think it would appeal and be more pleasurable to more readers with more lamens terms. Or maybe I need to flex my vocabulary more. While I enjoyed the stories, I honestly had difficulty following how a few were examples of her concepts at times. Certain times I could, other times I would return to the story again and again trying to understand. Bullet points around the story or discussion of concepts in the middle of the story (in italicsfor differentiation) could be helpful. Overall, this is a DIY teaching book, and so I should expect that I would not understand the concepts on round one or without some application first. In general I feel this was a good book on the subject with just a few, more technical, possibilities for improvement.