In this episode, we check in with our reading and writing as always and we spend our main discussion doing a writing exercise! The exercise prompt is given at 21:45 (also written below) and we read what we came up with at XX:XX. This one was super fun to do as two people at different stages and experience with our writing (Sam has never done this style of writing exercise, Allie has done hundreds of them; Sam’s a plotter, Allie’s a pantser; etc!).

We also get into a tangent about writing kid dialogue and end with a fantastic poem called “The Glass” by Sharon Olds. Read it here: https://www.deepcenter.org/deepcenter/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/the-glass_sharon-olds1.pdf

Prompt for the writing exercise: Write a scene where a parental figure is telling a story to a child in your world. Does not have to be a core myth, doesn’t have to mean anything or ever be included.

Intro and Outro Music is by Chasing West

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Chapters:

00:00–Cold open, intro song, and episode intro

00:33–Reading check ins!

9:38–Writing check ins!

21:14–Main Discussion: Writing Exercise!

Prompt for the writing exercise: Write a scene where a parental figure is telling a story to a child in your world. Does not have to be a core myth, doesn’t have to mean anything or ever be included.

22:32–Reading our drafts

31:50–Kid dialogue tangent (discussing two of Allie’s characters)

38:53–(CW–Yucky? lol) Poem of the Week! “The Glass” by Sharon Olds

https://www.deepcenter.org/deepcenter/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/the-glass_sharon-olds1.pdf

44:07–Next week, closing & outro music