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In this episode, Angie and Elizabeth answer a listener’s question about how to use poetic language to story’s advantage rather than distraction. This requires teasing apart what, exactly, poetic language entails–compression, metaphor, white space, senstae detail–and what prose writers can gain from the poetic. Focusing on poetry’s clarifying power rather than a sense of it as obscuring, they ask: what are your artistic goals, and can you go deeper to get clearer? They delve into story, character, and setting as metaphor , and emphasize the importance of letting your intentional choices as a writer guide your response to a note about, for example, the poetry in your language. By noticing that one of the thing art does sometimes is to shock and bother us, the conversation swings through a look at imagery in film and the history of different movements in film. In short: There is no book everyone likes. Find the people who understand what you are trying to do. Make sure you are one of them. Do what you love. And keep trying!
Links in this episode:
Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other
Jeanette Winterson The Passion
Books about Henry James:
Tim Ferriss books Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice and Tools of Titans
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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.