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Angie and Elizabeth fumble toward answering a listener’s question about metaphor, at first blaming the heat in their pandemic garage studio, but later, if you will, warming to the topic. They consider whether everyone thinks metaphorically, discuss common and dead metaphors, explore the ways metaphor builds character and visa versa, and touch on the ways every story is a metaphor, and the ways metaphor operates in film. Poetry is extolled as a rich teacher of effective metaphor. Angie and Elizabeth also spend some time improvising bad metaphors and debating spoilers. Other topics include the uncomfortable side of working to deadline while giving up perfection, and the eternal question, Have I done enough?
Links Discussed:
Frank L. Baum The Wizard of Oz (Here with Judy Blume introducing it!)
Janet Burroway Writing Fiction
Susan Choi Trust Exercise (now out in paperback!)
Curtis Sittenfeld Rodham (out this month!)
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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.