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
16. Distorted Perceptions of Reality and What to Do with Them
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This episode of The Mission with Zena Dell Lowe answers the philosophical question that was raised in episode 3 of this podcast, namely, what do we do if our perceptions of …
15. How to Tell the Difference Between Bias & Worldview and Agenda & Theme
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In Episode 15 of The Mission, Zena Dell Lowe clarifies a few of the issues raised in episodes 13 and 14 of this podcast. Namely, what's the difference between bias and world…
14. How Writing with an Agenda Undermines the Credibility of Your Story
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In story, it's essential that characters come across as credible and believable. A story must ring true in order for the audience to care and stay invested in the main chara…
13. How Approaching Story with a Bias Breaks Your Audience's Trust
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In story, your characters and their world must be credible and believable. The job of the storyteller, first and foremost, is to tell the truth about the world as you know it…
12. How to Make Your Characters Credible and Believable
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In this episode of The Mission with Zena Dell Lowe, Zena proposes that the acid test of a story is: does it work? By that, she means does the audience buy it? Are the charac…
11. The Character Arc: How to Show Character Growth and Change
In this episode of The Mission with Zena Dell Lowe, Zena expands on one of the fundamental principles of storytelling, namely, that the finest writing not only reveals true character, but arcs or cha…
10. The Character Arc: Why Your Character Must Grow and Change
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In this episode, Zena provides three reasons why characters need to grow and change in order for the audience to stay involved in the story. Since the essence of every story…
9. Why Characters Cannot Be at Heart What They Seem to Be at Face
In this episode, Zena Dell Lowe unpacks one of the most important principles of storytelling, which is that true character revelation, in contrast or contradiction to characterization, is fundamental…
8. Better than Real: Why We Prefer Characters to Real People
Your entire story hinges on character. There’s nothing more important in your story than that. In this episode, Zena Dell Lowe lists 5 ways in which characters are better than real.
1. Characters are …
7. Five Clever Techniques to Make Your Audience Care
In this episode, Zena Dell Lowe stresses the importance of forging a bond between the audience and the main character. The key is to create a character that is likable, sympathetic, or intriguing, bu…
6. How to Keep Your Main Character Active and Not Passive
Your main character needs to drive the action of the story by pursuing a goal relentlessly, but what happens when they hit obstacles that throw them off track? Learn the key story concepts and princi…
5. SHOW, DON’T TELL - Mastering the Art of Revealing Character Through Action
In this episode, Zena Dell Lowe shares 5 game-changing, easy to remember tips that will help writers learn how to reveal true character through action. It's show, don't tell storytelling at its fines…
4. How Do We Know When Something's Good?
In this episode, Zena Dell Lowe breaks down the two pronged approach that most people use to evaluate art, and shares examples from her personal life to show that the underlying issue always comes do…
3. The Impact of Trauma on Truth
In episode 3 of The Mission with Zena Dell Lowe, we explore one of the challenges that artists face in order to tell the truth about the world through their art. Namely, since past trauma and sufferi…
2. Why Human Beings are so Obsessed with Story
Why are we as a species so obsessed with story? Because in addition to our lizard brain (the lower part of our brain in charge of ensuring our survival in a hostile world), we also have a higher func…
1. All Artists are Storytellers
The Mission, according to Zena Dell Lowe, is to change the world for the better through story, but this podcast is hardly just for writers. All artists are storytellers because art itself tells a sto…