In the Telling

Scrapisodes are segments that are too good to be left on the cutting room floor.
Britty Marie was interviewed for Episode 12 – Where Art Intersects.

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Scrapisodes are segments that are too good to be left on the cutting room floor.
Britty Marie was interviewed for Episode 12 – Where Art Intersects.

Her full interview can be found on Patreon.
Learn more at lizzylizzyliz.com

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Guests: fine artist Desarae Lee and The Bemused Podcast host and Instagram makeup artist Britty Marie

Picasso said, “unless your painting goes wrong, it will be no good.” 

Nietsche said “We have art in order not to die from the truth.”  

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Before going on summer break for the month of August, get some tips, tricks and motivation to pick up a new storytelling hobby or to take your work to the next level. 

Advice for recording your first album from Gordon Vetas.
Advice for creating comics from Alondra Lopez.
Advice for transitioning from stage to film acting from Eric Millward.

Join Liz as she tries out a brand new video game, something she rarely does and totally sucks at. https://summonersfate.com/

"In the Telling" will be back in September.  Enjoy the break!  Catch up on content you may have missed.  Take time to create and share your story.  Maybe even try something new!

John Cleese said, “Nothing will stop you from being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”  

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This episode is part of a series of On the Street interviews, this time from the Salt Lake City 2019 Gaming Con.  In this episode, I spoke with local video game developers and enthusiasts about some of the exciting opportunities available to players.  You’ll hear from Lucas with the Gaming Lounge, Bobby Leffel and the Utah esports league, Noah Heron from Startale Games, and Kaltin Kirby grad student from the University of Utah Entertainment Arts and Engineering program.

https://www.instagram.com/thegamingloungeslc/
https://games.utah.edu/
https://www.facebook.com/StartaleGamesLLC/
https://www.instagram.com/utahesportsleague/

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This episode is part of a series of On the Street Interviews, this time from the Salt Lake City 2019 Gaming Con. I spoke with artists Tanner Staheli, Colleen Palmer and Sterling Felker.

Tanner Staheli
https://www.instagram.com/tanners_killer_art/
https://tannerstaheli.artstation.com/

Colleen Palmer
https://www.instagram.com/pixelgremlin/
https://www.colleenpalmer.com/
Art by Colleen Palmer on Facebook

Sterling Felker
https://www.instagram.com/cornybones/
https://twitter.com/Corny_Bones

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This episode is part of a series of book discussions on the art and craft of storytelling called “Between the Lines.”

Show Notes:

Special Guest:
Christine Haggerty, author and black belt, loves to create and share stories of strength and survival. Visit her author page on Amazon, and follow her on Twitter and Facebook. From the back cover of the book, "Christine Haggerty has a B.S. in Secondary Education and over fourteen years experience teaching both language arts and traditional karate. She is an expert in both writing and fighting and combines her expertise in these fields to bring you an effective guide on action scenes. She is also an award-winning author of dystopian and dark fantasy fiction and loves to spin fire on the weekends."

Key points from her book and our discussion:
Assess your audience
If you are including a fight/action scene, you are writing genre fiction, NOT literary fiction
Prewrite, this should probably also involve pictures and toys and maybe some movies or video games
Consider the amount of training and experience your character has, what is their relationship with violence?
"The point of the set-up is to create context for the fight so that the actual fight can be written as nothing but a nitty gritty sequence of action measure in heartbeats."
Emotional fallout is the point of a fight scene in a story.  How does this situation affect your characters?

Chapters
10:00 AJ Scudiere and the Author’s Combat Academy
15:03 customizing for the Young Adult and Romance novel genres
17:27 fight scenes v. action scenes
19:29 5 moves and John Wick and Ant Man and the Wasp
21:39 write according to the laws of physics, then add magic
24:19 accessibility and flare
25:22 character blocking and measuring it out
29:35 favorite fight scene that she’s ever written
35:04 from one character’s point of view
35:42 Adrenaline
42:18 emotional fallout
52:03 why readers like fight scenes so much
53:27 primal and universal

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Scrapisodes are segments that are too good to be left on the cutting room floor.
John Lyde was interviewed for Episode 9 – Violence is Sometimes the Answer.
His full interview can be found on Patreon.
Learn more at lizzylizzyliz.com

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/LizChristensen)

Scrapisodes are segments that are too good to be left on the cutting room floor.
John Lyde was interviewed for Episode 9 – Violence is Sometimes the Answer.
His full interview can be found on Patreon.
Learn more at lizzylizzyliz.com

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/LizChristensen)

Scrapisodes are segments that are too good to be left on the cutting room floor.
Justin Lee was interviewed for Episode 9 – Violence is Sometimes the Answer.
His full interview can be found on Patreon.
Learn more at lizzylizzyliz.com

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/LizChristensen)