Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
Angie is figuring out how to figure out what she’s working on, and Elizabeth is working on the external propeller of her novel while starting something new. They grapple with how character desire drives a story, and how a character’s limiting belief impacts that desire, and how both build the premise. Want versus need comes up, and much about story, character worldview, American expectations and desire regarding story, values in conflict, powerful stakes, dog love as a solution to all problems, and more!
Links in this episode:
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Distant Dead by Heather Young
FREE Class Weds. Aug. 5, Writing in the Time of Covid-19
Questions? Email questions at storymakersshow.com
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.
I have so been enjoying these podcasts, and am amazed each time that you two still have so much to talk about! The banter gets better and better and the material is fantastic. I bring you with me on my dogwalks.