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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 in [...]

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 readers? Quote [...]

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 of [...]

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 discuss the basics [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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.”

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 [...]

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 [...]

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…

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 drawer. You send that work [...]

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 from selected poets will appear [...]

We at Story Institute would like to apologize for the delay in production for the next round of RamblingVerser Conversations…our podcast with writers for writers… The next round of storylines will begin next week…with a focus on the good writers found within our contests. Stay tuned for more and continue checking your feeds…