Catch up on the latest episodes…
Episode 109: Free Class!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Elizabeth and Angie explore Angie’s journey to story development, which she’ll be offering a free class on Monday, August 19, 2019, 7 to 8 PM Pacific. Join us or sign up for a video by registering here: Links…
Episode 108: Experiments in Storytelling
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS 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…
Episode 107: Grocery Shopping and Making Art
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Episode 106: Authenticity
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS 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…
Episode 105: Exit Your Comfort Zone
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS This week, Elizabeth is working on what it means to wait and Angie is getting out of her comfort zone. They discuss how it’s harder to be successful if you’re focused on the product instead of the process. Going…
Episode 104: Can Fiction Save Your Life?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In this week’s episode, Angie and Elizabeth discuss the question, can fiction save your life? Elizabeth rapidly fires off a few examples of fiction that served as sign posts for her as she grew up. They once again…
Episode 103: 3-7 Tips and Tricks for Summer Writing
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In today’s episode, Angie and Elizabeth share 3 (or is it 7?) tips and tricks for using this summer (or any time you are in between routines) to be a productive writer. They discuss Elizabeth’s continued revisions…
Episode 102: Improv and First Drafts
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In this week’s episode, while Elizabeth finishes up this latest round of edits, while Angie turns her attention to her summer project. She’ll be creating the scaffolding of a short film and, with a small number of…
Episode 101: Reaction Shots
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In today’s episode Angie and Elizabeth discuss reaction shots and how they differ between screen and prose. In film, reaction shots are indispensable. The audience turns to the reactions of others to understand how…
Episode 100: Story is a Side Effect
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS This week’s episode is episode 100!!! In “Story is a Side Effect,” Angie and Elizabeth discuss how story engages the same things that therapy does in order to catalyze growth. Both modes focus on human beings…
Episode 99: Waiting for the Steaks
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Today, Angie and Elizabeth are sitting outside at a restaurant as they discuss how the 7 steps can be seen even in a short scene. They take an excerpt from The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai and look at how each…
Episode 98: Writing It and Reading It
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In today’s podcast Angie and Elizabeth discuss how the quality of writing is not as markedly varied as our emotions tell us. This came up because Elizabeth is currently retyping her novel, something she has never…
Episode 97: Rachel Howard – Working on Why Now
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS While Angie is prepping an after dinner chat for Sonoma County Writer’s Camp and Elizabeth continues to revise, they talk with Rachel Howard about her process. First having worked on a memoir, Rachel recently…
Episode 97: 16 Tweets from Mira Jacob
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Elizabeth continues to re-write and Angie is preparing to “collect rejections” as she begins submitting her film Lost in the Middle to festivals. They discuss complicated versus complex stories—is the difference in…
Episode 96: The Soul of Wit
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In today’s podcast Angie and Elizabeth discuss brevity. Briefly. Story Makers is a podcast that features in-depth conversations with accomplished writers, filmmakers and industry experts about story craft,…
Episode 95: ‘Tis a Gift? Simplicity in Story
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Elizabeth and Angie talk about simplicity. How to strip out what isn’t necessary. Why simple motives are more convincing, according to Angie and Matt Bird. What Einstein might have said about simplicity. What…
Episode 94: Of Mice and Marie Kondo
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS After Angie almost pulls an all nighter and while Elizabeth exists in a new waiting state, they find themselves with their ow n inciting incident and metaphor for character. Mice. People and characters tend to take…
Episode 93: The Love and the Hate (of Writing)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Elizabeth and Angie discuss what we LOVE about writing. Because, why not? The conversation also touches on how much we retrain of what we hear v. what we teach, Ellen Sussman’s Rule of Three, thinking about what’s…