It's the STORY Stupid

Edit: title of this was wrong initially… this is episode 22. Gwenn brings you an interview with Brandon Sanderson, author of Mistborn and Elantris Visit his site at brandonsanderson.com. Please contact us at Via E-mail with suggestions, comments, ideas. You can also call and leave voicemail at (678) 810-0967 Listen to Episode 22 This work is licensed under a [...]

Finally my interview with Richard Lowry, author of Marines in the Garden of Eden Visit his site at www.marinesinthegardenofeden.com. Please contact us at Via E-mail with suggestions, comments, ideas. You can also call and leave voicemail at (678) 810-0967 Listen to Episode 21 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Links mentioned: Library Thing Jamie Ford Tricks on Dialogue from the OSC Writing Class Orson Scott Card’s site OSC’s Intergalactic Medicine Show Sci-Fi Magazine Promo: Holly Lisle Mentioned: I Should Be Writing Update on my writing… like you actually care. Some info on publishing (eg. the selling your books and what you need to know to sell short stories, what to expect, what [...]

Just a quick thought or two from me on Card’s thoughts on Steven King. Still working on converting class notes into show notes. Forgot to mention the voicemail number in the show. Please contact us at Via E-mail with suggestions, comments, ideas. You can also call and leave voicemail at (678) 810-0967 Listen to [...]

Here’s the final installment of my interview with Orson Scott Card. I probably failed in my attempt to not be too much of a fanboy when asking him about his work. There IS some good stuff here on the structure of a novel and some examples of how he thinks he didn’t get [...]

This is the second part of the Orson Scott Card interview. This was actually the first part I recorded with OSC and myself PLUS the added bonus of Ed Schubert who is the new editor of InterGalactic Medicine Show The audio quality with both of them talking wasn’t quite what I expected/wanted, so [...]

OK, I got an hour or so of interview with OSC at his class this weekend. I’m breaking it up into three shows, which I’ll be putting up over the next few days. The next two should have better sound quality than this one as I’ll have time to edit them more, but [...]

Getting it down and Wordtripper books.

"some rambling on originality and how hard it can be to have your own voice"

I blather on about writing books you may want to read, etc.

A nice quick look at journaling as non-writing, and sharing too much about your writing. And yes I said Episcode apparently… and I’m working from fewer notes today, let me know if you like it less or more than the other recent podcasts (done with quite a few notes). Roberts Rules of Writing by Robert [...]

Took a bit longer to get this done than I’d hoped, but we’ve got #11 up now. The book I mention is Storyteller by Kate Wilhelm. Please contact us at wordtrip at gmail.com with suggestions, comments, ideas. You can also call and leave voicemail at (678) 810-0967 PLEASE, check out the short short story contest over [...]

We got a few responses from the last podcast that I play back for you and discuss here.

We’re still nailing down the formats, and I’m still getting the laptop back to full functionality. I’m hoping my moderators and some of our more experienced writers will record a response to some of the thoughts on writing that I talk about in this podcast, and we’ll get those integrated into the NEXT episode. [...]

We’ve changed the name from The Wordtrip Podcast to It’s the Story Stupid, the Wordtrip podcast. I guess with the name change I could re-start at #01… but I don’t think I will. We’re discussing the next three plots in 20 Master Plots. I tried to talk a little slower tonight, I [...]