We’re back after our summer break. As we did last year, we’re opening this season with a five-part series that includes some tips and challenges to help be an inspiration to your writing.

For this episode, your hosts - Stefan Hostetter and Paul Dore - talk about genre in storytelling. The challenge from this episode is to take a story you’d like to write and place it into a different genre.

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We’re back after our summer break. As we did last year, we’re opening this season with a five part series that includes some tips and challenges to help be an inspiration to your writing.

For this episode, your hosts - Stefan Hostetter and Paul Dore - talk about writing a story using a specific tone. The challenge from this episode is to take a story you have already written and try to re-write it in an opposite tone.

Subscribe to the Stories We Don’t Tell Podcast on iTunes, read transcripts of the episodes on the blog, and keep up to date on our events through the Facebook Page.

We’re back after our summer break. As we did last year, we’re opening this season with a five-part series that includes some tips and challenges to help be an inspiration to your writing.

For this episode, your hosts - Stefan Hostetter and Paul Dore - talk about writing a story based on a theme, rather than from an experience. The challenge is to pick something you’ve been thinking or talking or journaling about and see if a theme emerges. Write about that theme and add some personal stories or experiences that can be used to explore it.

Subscribe to the Stories We Don’t Tell Podcast on iTunes, read transcripts of the episodes on the blog, and keep up to date on our events through the Facebook Page.

The next five episodes of the podcast will be a mash-up of our Five in Five and After Dark series. Two random hosts talk about writing tips and tricks that are companion pieces or add-ons to the original Five in Five.

In this episode, we talk about how just as a writer finds their writing voice, a storyteller needs to find their performance voice.

The Stories We Don't Tell Podcast is sponsored by the Peggy Sue Collection and they are offering 15% off all orders through their online store. Visit peggysuecollection.com/shop/or click on the banner below. Make sure to use the promo code #SWDTCONFUSED at checkout.

The next five episodes of the podcast will be a mash-up of our Five in Five and After Dark series. Two random hosts talk about writing tips and tricks that are companion pieces or add-ons to the original Five in Five.

In this episode, we re-visit editing. A lot of people don’t like to do it, but you really should do it. It’s not necessary to say every detail about your story. Choose your words wisely.

The Stories We Don't Tell Podcast is sponsored by the Peggy Sue Collection and they are offering 15% off all orders through their online store. Visit peggysuecollection.com/shop/or click on the banner below. Make sure to use the promo code #SWDTCONFUSED at checkout.

The next five episodes of the podcast will be a mash-up of our Five in Five and After Dark series. Two random hosts talk about writing tips and tricks that are companion pieces or add-ons to the original Five in Five.

In this episode: know the elements of your story and use quality ingredients. After writing your entire story out, choose the best moments in order to use your time wisely. And naturally, the French New Wave enters into the conversation.

The Stories We Don't Tell Podcast is sponsored by the Peggy Sue Collection and they are offering 15% off all orders through their online store. Visit peggysuecollection.com/shop/or click on the banner below. Make sure to use the promo code #SWDTCONFUSED at checkout.

The next five episodes of the podcast will be a mash-up of our Five in Five and After Dark series. Two random hosts talk about writing tips and tricks that are companion pieces or add-ons to the original Five in Five.

What happens when you have a theme or universal concept you want to explore in a story? We discuss how to pick a personal moment in your story that represents a universal theme.

The Stories We Don't Tell Podcast is sponsored by the Peggy Sue Collection and they are offering 15% off all orders through their online store. Visit peggysuecollection.com/shop/or click on the banner below. Make sure to use the promo code #SWDTCONFUSEDat checkout.

The next five episodes of the podcast will be a mash-up of our Five in Five and After Dark series. Two random hosts talk about writing tips and tricks that are companion pieces or add-ons to the original Five in Five.

One of our pieces of advice is to write out the entire story. But, can you write too much sometimes? We try very hard to answer this question.

The Stories We Don't Tell Podcast is sponsored by the Peggy Sue Collection and they are offering 15% off all orders through their online store. Visit peggysuecollection.com/shop/or click on the banner below. Make sure to use the promo code #SWDTCONFUSEDat checkout.

Podcast mini-series alert! For the next few episodes, we'll be featuring interviews with Stories We Don't Tell performers and be talking about how they use storytelling in other ways.

Joey Jakob is an extroverted introvert who sometimes likes talking and really likes writing and thinking. Stefan sits down with Joey in the Stories We Don't Tell Studios to discuss how Joey uses storytelling in her work. Stay tuned for a story that Joey performed at a recent live event.

The Stories We Don't Tell Podcast is sponsored by the Peggy Sue Collection and they are offering 15% off all orders through their online store. Visit peggysuecollection.com/store/ or click on the banner below. Make sure to use the promo code #SWDTCONFUSED at checkout.

Co-host Stefan talks with Peggy Sue about her career and how she uses storytelling in fashion. To learn more about the Peggy Sue Collection, visit peggysuecollection.com. Stay tuned for a story from Peggy Sue that she performed at a recent Stories We Don't Tell.

For listeners of this podcast, Peggy Sue is offering 15% off all orders through their online store. Visit peggysuecollection.com/store/ or click on the banner below. Make sure to use the promo code #SWDTCONFUSED at checkout.