Top Highlights

• • Storytelling is recounting a true experience from your life that has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
• Your point, or moral, or deeper message, should be known to you, to drive the writing and telling of your tale, but in my opinion, you should keep it to yourself.
• A lot of first-time storytellers provide too much unnecessary information up top.
• Some of the most successful artists out there have found one recurring theme and told variations of that story over and over, to great success.
• It was one of those laughs that goes into applause, then back to laughter—a reaction I had never received in the six years I had been pursuing stand-up.