The Storyteller’s Mission with Zena Dell Lowe
Zena Dell Lowe is a seasoned and engaging teacher with a passion for writers and storytellers. Her focused, concise, and practical episodes (all roughly 20 minutes) not only explore the nuts and bolts of the craft, but also dive deep into the inner life of the artist and the "why" behind creativity. If you believe that story matters, you'll want to give this podcast a listen.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 236
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
56. The Primary Purpose of Art is to Promote Human Connection
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EPISODE 56 – The Primary Purpose of Art is to Promote Human Connection
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55. What Constitutes Redemption and How Do Characters Achieve It?
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EPISODE 55 – What Constitutes Redemption and How Do Characters Achieve It?
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54. A Good Story Leaves Room for The Possibility of Redemption
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EPISODE 54 – A Good Story Leaves Room for The Possibility of Redemption
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53. How to Portray Good and Evil in Story
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EPISODE 53 – How to Portray Good and Evil in Story
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52. How To Tell The Truth Without Violating Your Audience
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EPISODE 52 – How To Tell The Truth Without Violating Your Audience
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51. Is Your Story Good Before God?
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EPISODE 51 – Is Your Story Good Before God?
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50. Developing Story Ideas, Setting Expectations and Establishing Your Stylistic Rights
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EPISODE 50 – CHEAT SHEET
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49. When it Comes to Genres and Sub-genres, it's all about Evoking Certain Emotions
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EPISODE 49: WHEN IT COMES TO GENRES AND SUB-GENRES, IT'S ALL ABOUT EVOKING CERTAIN EMOTIONS
EPISODE DESCRIPTION:
Last week’s episode discussed the pu…
48. What Is Genre and Why Is It So Important?
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47. Is Your Story Idea Commercial?
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This week Zena explores the viability of a project by asking the question, is it Commercial? We’re snotty when it comes to this. But commerciality means mass appeal – which…
46. Make Your Story Good Before Hollywood with a Formula that Works: Heart, Smarts & Sparkle
Ep. 46 - Make Your Story Good Before Hollywood with Heart, Smarts & Sparkle
EPISODE DESCRIPTION:
In this episode, Zena gives additional criteria that you can use to evaluate the merits of your sto…
45. Finding Your Story: How to Test Whether or Not Your Story Idea is Good
Ep. 45. Finding Your Story: How to Test Whether or Not Your Story Idea is Good
EPISODE DESCRIPTION:
In this episode of The Storyteller’s Mission, Zena goes back to the basics and asks, “What is a …
44. Ritual & Tradition: The Gift of a New Year
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In the last episode of the A-HA MOMENT Series (and the last episode of the entire year), Zena reflects back to a time when she was privileged to hear Tony Campolo speak at a …
43. Understanding Justice and Suffering: Three Kinds of Suffering that Radically Impact Our Perceptions of God
In this special episode of The Storyteller's Mission, Zena Dell Lowe breaks down the twin concepts of Justice and Suffering.
Justice is that need inside of us that demands that wrong doers pay for th…
42. Five Empowering Phrases to Transform Your Professional Life
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A-ha moment #2 = In this episode, Zena shares how she had a terrible time setting boundaries in business early in her career, so in order to prevent her life from being hijac…
41. How the Desire to Get into the "Inner Circle" Can Destroy You
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As human beings, we all have an intense desire to become a member of some exclusive "inner circle," and to establish relationships in the business with professionals we think…
40. Common Mistakes that Writers Make: Missed Opportunities & Tangential Content
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This episode presents two more major mistakes that Zena has been seeing lately in the work she's been reviewing for clients. These are:
3. Not milking every moment for what it…
39. Common Mistakes that Writers Make: Passive Objectives & Flawed Mythologies
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On Thanksgiving 2020, one of the things we can be grateful for is knowledge that helps us to maximize our time and create the best first draft possible. To that end, Zena sha…
38. Dialogue Tools: How Unexpected Dialogue Creates Intrigue for Your Audience
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This episode presents my final three favorite tools in a series on how to write great dialogue in your novel, screenplay, or play. These advanced techniques can transform the…
37. Dialogue Tools: Here's How to Expose Backstory Through Dialogue
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This episode continues to explore some of my favorite tricks and tools for writing great dialogue.
1. Turn exposition into conflict or confrontation. This is how you can expos…