It’s the STORY Stupid

A nice quick look at journaling as non-writing, and sharing too much about your writing. And yes I said Episcode apparently… and I’m working from fewer notes today, let me know if you like it less or more than the other recent podcasts (done with quite a few notes).

Roberts Rules of Writing by Robert Masello.

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Took a bit longer to get this done than I’d hoped, but we’ve got #11 up now.

The book I mention is Storyteller by Kate Wilhelm.

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PLEASE, check out the short short story contest over at Wordtrip.com that’s ending in less than two weeks. We need more entries!

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A) This might be a bit quiet again, but hopefully not so quiet you can’t hear it… I’ll work out the recording kinks soon, if not the horrible sound of my voice.

B) I had to record this twice… I screwed up something after the first time and lost all of MY voice (still had the music and the voicemail info)… so hopefully I didn’t rush through it too much and miss anything after that second run through (and yes I had written out pretty detailed notes to begin with… so I KNEW what I was TRYING to say… so I probably screwed it up).

We got a few responses from the last podcast that I play back for you and discuss here. I’ll tackle a new subject next time. The book I mention is Storyteller by Kate Wilhelm, and the comments mostly relate to a couple of things I pulled from the book last time.

Please contact us at wordtrip at gmail.com with suggestions, comments, ideas. You can also call and leave voicemail at (678) 810-0967

PLEASE, check out the short short story contest over at Wordtrip.com that’s ending in less than two weeks. We need more entries!

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We’re still nailing down the formats, and I’m still getting the laptop back to full functionality. I’m hoping my moderators and some of our more experienced writers will record a response to some of the thoughts on writing that I talk about in this podcast, and we’ll get those integrated into the NEXT episode. The book we discuss is Storyteller by Kate Wilhelm. Please contact us at wordtrip at gmail.com with suggestions, comments, ideas.

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We’ve changed the name from The Wordtrip Podcast to It’s the Story Stupid, the Wordtrip podcast. I guess with the name change I could re-start at #01… but I don’t think I will. We’re discussing the next three plots in 20 Master Plots. I tried to talk a little slower tonight, I hope you can understand me…

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OK, Sorry for the holiday delay… quick writing instigator (with funky sound)… full show coming soon.

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OK, I finally got around to covering the first couple of plots in 20 Master Plots (yes, I know I talk too fast… I’ll work on that next time). I’ll have the next couple in a week or so… I hope. It’s the Christmas holiday around my house and that takes up some time.

We’re also looking at coming up with a pithy name for this podcast… my current favorite is “It’s the Story stupid!”… if you’ve got any ideas send them my way at wordtrip at gmail.com.

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Today we just have a quick writing instigator on editing.

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Please forgive the audio quality this week, my recording session picked up a bunch of background noise that made the cleaned up audio a bit funky.

This week we’re starting a new series in the podcast. I’ll be giving you synopsis type information of advice from writing books. We’re starting with 20 Master Plots and how to build them by Ronald B Tobias. I’ll be using this book for the next few weeks to give advice on writing various plots, and if you enjoy what you hear please click a link below and buy the book from Amazon or B&N.

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We’ve got a short tidbit show today. We’re going to be running some of these little “Writing Instigators” in our “normal” podcasts as well. Happy Thanksgiving!

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