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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Angie is learning about teaching math and either making connections to learning and writing…or developing a unified theory of everything. Elizabeth is in diffuse, “what if” mode, exploring her real values. As…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Today’s episode brings the study of scene to a conclusion with a third scene, this one from Danzy Senna’s non-fiction Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History . Angie and Elizabeth look at the work an…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Continuing the series examining the art of the scene, Angie and Elizabeth delve into an early scene from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Nickel Boys. A deft scene by a highly skilled author….

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS After kicking off a series about scene in the last episode, Angie and Elizabeth introduce a specific scene, the final scene in Elizabeth Strout’s short story “The Sign” in her book Anything is Possible. The…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Today’s episode informally kicks off a series where Angie and Elizabeth will be discussing scene, that key unit of storytelling across many formats and genres. As an overview, they present a number of elements of…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS On today’s episode, Angie and Elizabeth talk about what changes between the ordinary world that starts a story, and the new ordinary world where the characters end up, their limiting beliefs having been utterly…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS After a two-week hiatus, Angie and Elizabeth are back asking, how can a story-making show co-hosted by two white queer women serve this moment? They look at balancing forward movement with the state of the world,…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS It was a blast to have Angie Kim on the show talking about her now-in-paperback legal mystery MIRACLE CREEK, and rich and compelling, Edgar-award winning book that touches on themes of motherhood, special needs…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Recorded on Mother’s Day, this episode is about revision and getting notes. After a brief look at the revision process of Angie’s feature screenplay for Lost in the Middle, including a horizontal notebook, other…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Angie and Elizabeth fumble toward answering a listener’s question about metaphor, at first blaming the heat in their pandemic garage studio, but later, if you will, warming to the topic. They consider whether…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Angie and Elizabeth dig into some forms, frameworks and rules that can sustain a creative practice in trouble times, including the practice of freewriting, the three rules that run Elizabeth’s craft classes, and…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS On today’s episode, Angie and Elizabeth delve into conflict in crisis, and what we can learn about story–and history–from the moment we are muddling through. They acknowledge that growth can be uncomfortable, and…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS 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…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Live from our garage, a day late and a dollar short, in the middle of a global pandemic, Angie and Elizabeth have the following, just for you: An update on middle school math and distance learning; the asymptotic…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Today’s episode asks, how do you find your writing passion while you’re hiding out at home. Routines? Extreme measures? What is called for? Angie and Elizabeth answer a listener’s question. Some of the answers…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Today’s shelter-in-place episode delves into what survival strategies teach you about your writing lifestyle and offers a plug for reading and a metaphor, advice from Northern Italy, a couple of writing prompts, a…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS This week, Angie is cognitively processing while Elizabeth is rereading her manuscript on hardcopy yet one more time. In this episode, Angie and Elizabeth explore whether their newly cleared yard is a metaphor for…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS 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…