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Reflect on your Knowledge and Imagine a new world…oh yeah, and write about it…
  
Featured Quote:
“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.”
  
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
~Immanuel Kant
   
Featured Poem:
Ode on a Grecian Urn
~ John Keats
  
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
    Thou foster-child of silence and slow [...]

Childhood connections or Nada…Your path defined by you, the poet, writer, creator…
Featured Quote: “I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, [...]

Style and Story – Has the muse moved…Or, is man really a friend of the vultures…
Featured Quote: “Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of “truth” and the language of “creation.” [...]

Time Back from Beyond…New focus and new writing prompts…

Quote of the week: “I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.”
~ Samuel Beckett

Short Story Focus and Topic: “The Open Boat” ~ Stephen Crane
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After a much too long of a hiatus, Story Institute’s RamblingVerser podcast will be returning to the air…or rather clouded waves…This season, we will bring back some familiar favorites such as the quote, poem, and topics of the week as well as add some structure to your storytelling and writing. We will be bringing [...]

You’ve heard this before…or, maybe we forgot to include the foreshadowing…
In today’s episode, we talk with Chad Corrie (www.chadcorrie.com) about foreshadowing and tying up your story. What information did you feed your readers? Did you give them enough information to keep reading? Does the ending make sense to the characters, writers, and [...]

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 grow from you.
Quote [...]

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 as we [...]

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 them more fairy tales. When I [...]

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 could never be yours.”
This week, John [...]

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 a new forum at Story Institute at [...]

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 rarely mention it again.”
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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, we talk about setting and where it leads each [...]

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 established writers in Humble, Texas who meet weekly at the [...]

On the next episode of Story Institute’s RamblingVerser…we will be speaking with members of the Humble Fiction Cafe…they are a extraordinary group of writers who have grown together in writing and publishing…their combined efforts have published the book Split!

Tune into the next episode of Story Institute’s RamblingVerser for this great conversation…