In today’s episode, Angie and Elizabeth discuss the use of narrative in the art of persuasion. Coming back to Lindsay Doran’s rules of story, they check them against various politicians’ appeals. This leads to an examination of competing stories, hyperbole, lies, character change, and audience. What kind of story does an audience need or is an audience ready for? Finally, they touch on the crucial role of writers in moving us and our world forward. steal this suggest sponsorship patches for politicians and the Booker Prize-winning book Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo.


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Story Makers is a podcast that features in-depth conversations with accomplished writers, filmmakers and industry experts about story craft, technique, habit and survival–everything you need to know to stay inspired, connect to your creativity, find others’ wonderful stories and your own success.

The hosts:

Elizabeth Stark is a published, agented novelist and distributed filmmaker who teaches and mentors writers at BookWritingWorld.com.

Angie Powers is a distributed filmmaker and published short story writer with an MFA in creative writing and a certificate in screenwriting from UCLA who teaches story structure at BookWritingWorld.com.