Catch up on the latest episodes…
Episode 92: The Rush and the Risk: Talking Novelistic Nonfiction with Christine O’Brien
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Today we talk with Christine O’Brien about her wonderful new memoir CRAVE. We tackle the challenges and techniques of shaping a memoir, applying formal structure to memory. Structure can also be a way to take risks…
Episode 91: The Revelations of Revision
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Today’s podcast is all about backstory and revision. Revision as the iterative process that helps you dig deeper into your story. Backstory as that which can be moved into the present action or withheld for…
Episode 90: Daniel Jokelson – Finding the Medicine
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In this week’s episode, Angie and Elizabeth chat with one of Elizabeth’s high school classmates, Daniel Jokelson, about being a maggid—a kind of wandering storyteller. Storytelling has worked its way into every…
Episode 89: Devi Laskar – Taking it Day by Day
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS This week Angie and Elizabeth welcome back Devi Laskar to talk about how far she has come in a year. From finding an agent, to being about to be published, to hearing a sample from the audiobook of her debut novel,…
Episode 88: Reversing the Expectation
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In today’s episode, Angie and Elizabeth check back in to see how Angie’s experiment with “bad” writing went. When working to write badly, Angie found that she was not writing terribly enough. And that these kinds…
Episode 87: The Good, The Bad, and Just Writing
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In this today’s episode, Angie and Elizabeth chat about Bad Writing and how sometimes purposefully writing “badly” can show you how much you know (or don’t) about writing. We often have a mystical approach to…
Episode 86: Let’s Talk About Goals
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In this week’s episode, Angie and Elizabeth talk about goal setting for the coming year. Questions such as, “Where do you want to be in a year?” and “What have you accomplished in the last year?” are a good first…
Episode 85: Ours Is to Reason Why
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In the first episode of the New Year, Angie and Elizabeth dive head first into discussing the need for emotional logic to understand why people do what they do. Studies show that an explanation as simple as “I need…
Episode 84: The Outer Limits of Limiting Belief
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Angie and Elizabeth explore the relationship of story events to character as they respond to a listener’s question about how much each scene in a story must be shaped by the main character’s limiting belief. They…
Episode 83: Keep ’em Laughing: Irving Ruan
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS As Angie works on cover letters for her film and Elizabeth has a huge revelation on the next steps on her novel, they take a moment to chat with Irving Ruan about humour and his unique journey. Irving is a person…
Episode 82:The Blind Date or Why Your Rejection is Your Fault
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Elizabeth and Angie discuss many, many things in a short time, including coffee, Kafka, the relative speed of mail in the 19th century and why rejection might be more under your control than you think. They discuss…
Episode 81: Nothing You Can’t Change? A Talk with Peter Coyote
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In today’s podcast, Angie and Elizabeth sit down with actor and memoirist Peter Coyote, talking about his unique journey from counterculture to Hollywood in his 40s and beyond. After analyzing movie stars to…
Episode 80: Solving a Moving Puzzle: Micah Perks
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In this week’s podcast, Angie and Elizabeth reconnect with Micah Perks and discuss her new book of linked stories. Micah has always been a fan of episodic work, and after working with a longer forms of writing, she…
Episode 79: Getting Lost to Find Your Theme: Laurie Ann Doyle
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS This week, Angie and Elizabeth chatted with Laurie Ann Doyle about her process transitioning from writing short stories to writing her first novel. From doing research, to choosing the right words, both short and…
Episode 78: Texas Chainsaw Massacre Your Darlings
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Today we discuss the editing process on macro and micro levels. While Angie gets color and sound ready for her film, Elizabeth exists in a waiting period as equanimical as ever (ha ha), and the Book In A Year…
Episode 77: Taking the Scene-ic Route
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS This week we delve into the functions of scene while taking a few detours to touch on apostrophising as well determining what exposition really is. Angie continues to put all of her ducks in a row on her film as…
Episode 76: Earn Your Subtlety
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In today’s episode, we discuss the art of not being subtle as well as the merits of exaggeration. Elizabeth is working towards the deadline of her newest draft by revamping crucial scene, and Angie is working on…
Episode 75: Here’s to Deadlines
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In this week’s podcast we discuss the before and the after of realizing a project. In it, I consider the logistics of when to print out my manuscript, and Angie reflects on her almost picture locked film Lost in…