The Story Smith: Recent Episodes
Fazen Lai
97% of people who start writing a book don't finish it. That is why it is important for ALL storytellers, not just novelists, to understand the reasons why people fail, how to overcome them, and the techniques behind storytelling. The Story Smith Podcast is designed just for that. Storytelling is more than just a form of entertainment. It is used in marketing, warfare, and even in the way we perceive the world, and even how we remember things. So, do you want to be in the 3% who succeed?
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A little different from the other episodes, we take a detour from technique and go into the philosophy of storytelling.
Why do we enjoy stories? What makes people spend billions of dollars each year around the globe on movies and books? What do people want to hear in stories today?
All answered in today's episode.
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Moving away from character work, we take a quick look at plot writing. Not the way in which plot and character interplay, but rather, how we can use the plot to raise the stakes, and the importance of setting things up before you use them in your story.
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Welcome to the third episode of The Story Smith Podcast.
A continuation of sorts from the last episode, we will take a look at how we can write real characters in a little more detail, leaving plot for another day. Characters are the souls of your story and are thus vital to get right if you want your audience to engage with what is happening.
If your characters aren't real (in essence), no one will care about them.
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Welcome to the second episode of The Story Smith Podcast.
In this episode, we will briefly consider what makes a character and plot work together, and how we can have the two harmonizing to create a thoroughly engaging story.
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Welcome to the first episode of The Story Smith Podcast.
In this episode, we will briefly consider what it is that makes people quit writing their first book, screenplay, or comic, and how we can overcome some of the common issues we all face when writing by, in a sense, preempting them.
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Welcome storytellers.
Get your pens and anvils ready, because we have a lot of forging to do.
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