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Get motivated and create action within your stories… In today’s episode, we talk with Chad Corrie (www.chadcorrie.com) about motive and influencing action within a story. Why do characters behave the way they do? Where do the characters look to motivation? Well, if you are a writer, these items originate and [...]
Add a conflict or don’t…being conflicted within your story… In today’s episode, we talk with Chad Corrie (www.chadcorrie.com) about conflict in a story. Stories need conflict of some sort to grow, progress, and maintain interest. What is the conflict within your story? How have you let it grow? Listen in [...]
Writing Down the Fairy Tales…If you thought living a fairytale was tough to come by…try writing them…it is fun, but a very different world indeed… Quotes of the Week: “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read [...]
Find another notebook…Writing from within instead of with…Conversations about writing…John E Murray III Quote by Dale Carnegie: “Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought [...]
Adding character to your characters…Conversations about writing…Chad Corrie & John E Murray III Quote by Jim Henson: “Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” This week, we talk about characters, how they start, and how they grow into the breath of their stories… We have [...]
Plot your plot…Conversations about writing…Chad Corrie & John E Murray III Quote by Walt Disney: ““Ideas come from curiosity. When I settle one idea, my confidence takes command; and nothing can shake it, and I am constant to it until it comes a reality. Then I drop it abruptly, and [...]
Visit with us this week as we talk with Chad Corrie (www.chadcorrie.com) about setting and creating a solid foundation on which to build your story… Setting up what follows…Conversations about writing…Chad Corrie & John E Murray III Quote by Margaret Atwood Poem from Mark Sengenberger – Me Change This week, [...]
Cafe Conversations with Humble Fiction Cafe Writing Group… Quote by H.G. Wells Poem from Timothy Russell – Collapse of Summer Guest Conversation with the Humble Fiction Cafe writing Group: Here is a little about the group (http://www.humblefictioncafe.blogspot.com/): “Humble Writers. No, it’s not an oxymoron. We’re a group of aspiring and [...]
This week’s show features other entries to our poetry contest and some general thoughts and prompts for writing…sit back, relax, and enjoy the show… Quote – Isaac Asimov – “You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a [...]
Story Institute, your online and in-print source for imagining, enhancing, and growing stories, is proud to announce the winners of its Spring, 2009 United States poetry contest. All first and second place winners will be featured in upcoming Story Institute RamblingVerser podcasts and newsletters. Along with the winning poems, entries [...]
Imagine New Worlds and Write with Chad Corrie… Did you find it a bit crazy that we our 13th episode is being aired on the 13th of April…we do…but, hey, there are crazier things…so, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show… Quote by Samuel Johnson Poem from Amy Lowell – [...]
Write and Publish Right with Robin Sullivan… Quote by HG Wells Poem from Mark Twain – Genuis Guest Conversation with Robin Sullivan Here is a little about Robin (http://www.write2publish.blogspot.com/): “I run a writer’s group in the Washington DC area with 340+ authors. Through it I do monthly free lectures on [...]
Fantastic Fiction with Michael J Sullivan… Quote by Abraham Lincoln Poem from Alfred Lloyd Tennyson – Ask Me No More Guest Conversation with Michael J Sullivan Here is a little about Michael (http://www.michaelsullivan-author.com/): “Born in Detroit Michigan, Michael J. Sullivan has lived in Vermont, North Carolina and Virginia. He worked [...]
Fouling through to make and change your Commitments…with Bob McDonald… Quote by William James Poem from Samuel Taylor Coleridge Guest Conversation with Bob McDonald Here is a little about Bob (http://www.flagrantfoul.com): “Bob is a two-time graduate of Cleveland State University, attaining a Bachelor of Arts in History in 2002 and [...]
Space…a Writing Frontier with Bart Leahy… Quote by B.F. Skinner Poem from William Blake – Sons of Los Guest Conversation with Bart Leahy Here is a little about Bart (http://www.bartacus.blogspot.com/): “I am a space advocacy writer. My background includes a Master’s degree in Technical Writing, business development writing for defense [...]
