Episode 59: Dialog in Craft and Collaboration: Individual Vision v. Group Dynamics

Angie and Elizabeth discuss auditions, revision, our autobiographies in books part 2, balancing collaboration with your individual vision, getting feedback in film v. in prose, influence and the sharing of ideas, articulating your vision and trusting your gut as a practice, dialog and listening–pacing, pauses, action, gestures and description, and humor–what makes something funny?

Links Discussed:

Seth Godin

Bonjour, Tristesse

9-5

The Hardy Boys Mysteries

Hermann Hesse

East of Eden by Steinbeck

Alice Walker

Alex Buono

I’m On My Way Running

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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.