PART ONE: FINDING YOUR STORY

Chapter 1: A Coward Tells a Story

Chapter 2: What Is a Story? (and What Is the Dinner Test?)
Chapter 3: Homework for Life
Chapter 4: Dreaming at the End of Your Pen

Chapter 5: First/Last/Best/Worst: Great for Long Car Rides, First Dates, and Finding Stories

PART TWO: CRAFTING YOUR STORY

Chapter 6: "Charity Thief"

Chapter 7: Every Story Only Takes Five Seconds to Tell (and Jurassic Park Wasn't a Movie About Dinosaurs)

Chapter 8: Finding Your Beginning (I'm Also About to Ruin Most Movies and Many Books Forever for You)

Chapter 9: Stakes - Five Ways to Keep Your Story Compelling (and Why There Are Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park)

Chapter 10: The Five Permissible Lies of True Storytelling

Chapter 11: Cinema of the Mind (Also Known As "Where the Hell
Are You?")

Chapter 12: The Principle of But and Therefore
Chapter 13: "This Is Going to Suck"

Chapter 14: The Secret to the Big Story: Make it Little
Chapter 15: There Is Only Way to Make Someone Cry

Chapter 16: Milk Cans and Balls. Babies and Blenders: Simple, Effective Ways to be Funny in Storytelling (Even If You're Not Funny at All)

Chapter 17: Finding the Frayed Ending of Your Story (Or... What the Hell Did That Mean?)

PART 3: TELLING YOUR STORY

Chapter 18: The Present Tense is King (But the Queen Can Play a Role, Too)

Chapter 19: If You Practice Storytelling or Public Speaking in a Mirror, Read This. If You Don't, Skip It.

Chapter 20: The Two Ways of Telling a Hero Story (Or... How to Avoid Sounding Like a Douchebag)

Chapter 21:Storytelling Is Time Travel (If You Don't Muck It Up)

Chapter 22: Words to Say. Words to Avoid.

Chapter 23: Time to Perform (On the Stage, in the Board Room, on a Date, or at the Thanksgiving Table)

Chapter 24: Why Did You Read This Book? To Become a Superhero.

Storyworthy

Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling