TOASTMASTERS ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SERIES STORYTELLING MANUAL PROJECT TWO, PART THREE

It is now time to discover the actual point of the story. I am going to have to write a log line.

It was Aristotle who, many eons ago, realized that all well-told stories must contain the following three elements:

A beginning,
A middle, and
An end.

In other words:

Tell them what you’re going to tell them,
Tell them, then
Tell them what you have told them.

Step one on page nine of the manual says, “Write down the point of your story. Keep it to one sentence.”

The point of the story, Larry and the Penguins, is:

Don’t try to sell your product to the wrong market.

In other words:

Would you go to a supermarket with the intent of buying a car?

That’s what I thought.

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Paul T. Abramson, CC
VP Public Relations
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