Angie, fresh off a week of making an experimental short film, discusses the lessons learned. She and Elizabeth look especially at how some set design lessons apply to setting in fiction, memoir and narrative non-fiction. They also touch on Angie’s collaborative process of creating and shooting the script, as well as operating as a largely one-person crew...with the help of some awesome tweens! And how to build the ideal 3-person crew. The podcast opens with a discussion of revision approaches and distractions, the problems with dictating to your phone, macro v micro, editing v fixing, creating a list of actionable items, and scene lists and their uses and definitions.

Links Discussed:

Getting Things Done// David Allen 

Sonoma County Writers Camp

Independent Ed by Ed Burns 

Y Tu Mama Tambien 

The Fitzgerald Family Christmas by Ed Burns

Broad Humor screens Lost in the Middle

Normal People by Sally Rooney  

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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.

 In today’s episode, Angie received her first film festival acceptance and Elizabeth finally got notes back from her development editor, moving her out of the waiting phase. Elizabeth surprised Angie with this week’s topic which effectively boils down to… Do you follow the same kind of process in both grocery shopping and in creating art? Some people shop with lists but create art as if it’s a Jackson Pollock painting, while others create a multistep outline for creative work and yet wander aimlessly through the grocery store while on the phone with their spouse. Is how you do anything how you do everything? Maybe, maybe not. Some people are always list people while others are always creative spheres of chaos. Angie also talks about how judgement, even positive judgment, can get in the way of noticing.

Organizing From the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Julia Margaret Cameron

Ellen Sussman

Sonoma County Writer’s Camp

The Inner Game by Timothy Gallwey

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.

This week Elizabeth finds still more lessons in the “still waiting” process while Angie continues to work on her rapidly approaching end-of-July film experiment, wondering if she’s procrastinating or gathering from a variety of sources. They discuss how it is different to be on the side of a “judge” rather than of the person submitting writing to a contest or an actor standing an audition, the one who, hat in hand, responds to the call. The judge is not looking for submission of what the applicant thinks the judge wants to see; the judge is in fact looking for the core of what the applicant is giving them. Authenticity.

Pennies from Heaven

Lost in the Middle

Coursera

Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

Richard Powers

Devi Laskar

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

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.