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In this episode, Angie and Elizabeth consider strategies for staying connected to your creativity in this extreme moment. What’s changed and what hasn’t, and what needs to change? Tools considered include the social urge, countering boredom, writing morning pages, lowering expectations, setting real deadlines, finding readers and following the fun. The conversation also touches on the way structure, story and characters are inextricably linked, and the power of being explicit about your choices in your story. They discuss the ways learning is a narrative. The big takeaway: keep supporting yourself to find what works for you now (hint: it probably looks like what worked before, but different), and stay safe.
Links Discussed:
Kara Cutruzzula’s Brass Ring Daily newsletter
Scriptnotes Phoebe Waller-Bridge episode
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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.