Angie, fresh off a week of making an experimental short film, discusses the lessons learned. She and Elizabeth look especially at how some set design lessons apply to setting in fiction, memoir and narrative non-fiction. They also touch on Angie’s collaborative process of creating and shooting the script, as well as operating as a largely one-person crew...with the help of some awesome tweens! And how to build the ideal 3-person crew. The podcast opens with a discussion of revision approaches and distractions, the problems with dictating to your phone, macro v micro, editing v fixing, creating a list of actionable items, and scene lists and their uses and definitions.

Getting Things Done// David Allen 

Sonoma County Writers Camp

Independent Ed by Ed Burns 

Y Tu Mama Tambien 

The Fitzgerald Family Christmas by Ed Burns

Broad Humor screens Lost in the Middle

Normal People by Sally Rooney  

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Story Makers is a podcast that features in-depth conversations with accomplished writers, filmmakers and industry experts about story craft, technique, habit and survival--everything you need to know to stay inspired, connect to your creativity, find others’ wonderful stories and your own success.

The hosts:

Elizabeth Stark is a published, agented novelist and distributed filmmaker who teaches and mentors writers at BookWritingWorld.com.

Angie Powers is a distributed filmmaker and published short story writer with an MFA in creative writing and a certificate in screenwriting from UCLA who teaches story structure at BookWritingWorld.com.