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With Elizabeth fresh off virtual Sonoma County Writers Camp, she and Angie discuss the technological opportunities of this moment and how it will carry into the future. This evolves into a consideration of the advantages of dictation and whether typing will turn out to be a brief technological phase. Angie doesn’t fall in love easily with books and, though she teaches story development based on screenwriting, the books she is drawn to tend to be quirky. She particularly appreciates narrators who accept the strange terms of their world. And the metaphoric resonances of that strange element. After a detour into an appreciation for amazing audiobook narrators and public libraries, the discussion advances the “one unbelievable thing” theory of near realism, looking at why it works to break one–and only one–rule and make everything believable.
Links in this episode:
Leonora Carrington The Hearing Trumpet
Kevin Wilson Nothing to See Here
Stockard Channing reading Ramona the Pest series
Ruth O. Saxton The Book of Old Ladies: Celebrating Women of a Certain Age in Fiction
Martin Seligman Authentic Happiness
Josh Spector For the Interested newsletter
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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.