How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth

by Meg Bowles

Perhaps all the first stories were cautionary tales that helped save lives, and that’s why we’re so hardwired to want, crave, and treasure them.

Who were you at the beginning of the story, and who were you at the end?

Krista Tippett once asked Nadia Bolz-Weber, a trailblazing Lutheran minister (who is also a Moth storyteller), how she knows a personal anecdote or story is ready to go into one of her sermons. Nadia answered that she always tries to “preach from her scars and not her wounds.”