Episodes
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Story Makers Show
A Podcast for Every Story Teller
Episodes
Episode 73: The Riot Grrl Library Tapes: a conversation with Celeste Chan
Episode 72:The Girl on the Bookstore Train: What Authors Need to Know to Market Their Books
Episode 71: Little Knots of Why and What
Episode 70: Breaking the Rules
Episode 69: The Drama of Ordinary Moments
Episode 68: Waltzing: One, Two, Three Steps to Story
Episode 67: Squeezing It In
Episode 66: A Pleasurable Masochism: the secrets of story with Matt Bird
Episode 65: Don’t Fear the Process
Episode 64: Rejection and Resurrection
Episode 63: Macro Despair/ Micro Success: Editing, Agents, Writing Retreats and the Shared Love of Story with Editor Molly Schulman
Episode 62: Story Problem: Concrete Goals for Writers, Filmmakers, and Characters
Episode 61: Burying the Lead: a journalist turns to poetry
Episode 60: Language of a Common Dream: Books and Podcasts that Inspire Us and Our Writing
Episode 59: Dialog in Craft and Collaboration: Individual Vision v. Group Dynamics
Episode 58:Exquisite Empathy: Mystery, Revelation, and Serendipity with Edgar nominee Heather Young
Episode 57: The Care and Feeding of a Writing Group + Autobiography in Books, part one: childhood
Episode 56:Go Big or Go Home: Lessons in Conflict and Writing Retreats
Episode 55: The Unflagging Middle: The Midpoint, The Muddle and More About The Short Story
Episode 54: The Math of It, Plus the Definition of a Short Story and the Role of Feedback…
Episode 53: Hard choices: prioritizing your writing and when to use scene
Episode 52:Creative Arrogance and the Cult of Done
Episode 51: Creative and Political Action: an inspirational guide to momentum for the writer
This conversation with Aya inspires me every time I hear it--it is a necessary look, for writers, at what we can do to effect political change, as well as a motivating look at structure, deadlines, and momentum.
Episode 50: Does Art Require an Audience?
Angie and Elizabeth discuss the pros and cons of the dictum to write everyday, the benefits and drawbacks of social media to the writer/ creative type, and whether art requires an audience.
Episode 49: Letting Go of Perfectionism, Trusting Your Obsessions, Playing the Long Game: Caille Millner
Caille Millner is an award-winning writers across genres, writing memoir, fiction, and, for the San Francisco Chronicle, cultural columns and opinion pieces. When we met, just after the election, she was already collaborating on a list for Bay Area writers of ways to volunteer your writing skills to help people made especially vulnerable by the election.
Episode 48:Quick Fix Q&A: Simplicity
In this week’s Quick Fix Q & A, Angie and Elizabeth discuss: 6 steps to creating a scene 4 tests for: is it an event? Plot complexity and genre expectations Your personal thematic Decision fatigue Automating your routine FREE Craft Class Friends' week is coming up in the Book Writing World, November 15 & 17! Join us in-person in Berkeley OR Online from anywhere via Zoom's video conferencing for a free 2-hour craft class on Backstory--when do you need it, how do you work it in, and what can and c...
Episode 47: Micah Perks and Fetal Narrators
Episode 46: Lucy Jane Bledsoe and the Fiction Non-Fiction Divide
Join our far-ranging, fun and fascinating conversation with Lucy Jane Bledsoe on the occasion of her brand new historical novel, A THIN BRIGHT LINE, based on the true-life story of her aunt.
Episode 45: Kirsty Starkey
Kirsty Starkey works as a producer at BBC Radio 4’s acclaimed show Woman’s Hour, “the programme that offers a female perspective on the world.” She researches and develops stories, finds and interviews potential subjects, prepares the presenters for live on-air interviews, and more