writing class radio
Writing Class Radio is for people who love true, personal stories and want to learn how to write their own stories. There's no better way to understand ourselves and each other than by writing and telling our stories. Everyone has a story. What's yours?
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 212
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
10: How to Write a Story Meant to be Told Out Loud
Today, we’re talking about writing stories meant to be told out loud. Jahn Dope tells his story, Tackled, about the time he was raped. Andrea Askowitz tells her story Thank You For Listening, about t…
00:34:12 |
Thu 25 Feb 2016
Will You Love Me Forever or Just on Valentine's Day?
Today, we are stepping out of order because it’s February and we’re in the U.S. and we can’t avoid thinking about love. So, we’re bringing you a Valentine’s Day episode. This episode is a little diff…
00:22:01 |
Thu 11 Feb 2016
9: Who Cares About Your Story? What Are the Stakes?
We’re talking about stakes. And we don’t mean those slabs of meat you eat if you’re not a vegetarian, but what makes a listener or a reader care about a story. And we’re talking about what we have to…
00:28:31 |
Mon 01 Feb 2016
8: You Don't Have to be a Clown to Write Funny
This episode is about writing humor. Andrea tells a joke only she thinks is funny, then calls our humor expert, Jay Wexler, who confirms just how funny her joke is. Jay is an attorney and the author …
00:35:18 |
Fri 15 Jan 2016
True Story: Nobody Likes New Year's Eve.
We’re interrupting our first semester to give you a taste of who’s to come in our second semester. You’ll meet Frenchy, who took Andrea’s writing class years ago and is now back. Does she get a kiss …
00:20:47 |
Wed 30 Dec 2015
7: Story Structure Is Sexy
How should a story be structured? Start from the very beginning by using the concept of story spine. Story spine, a technique articulated by the playwright Ken Adams, is the backbone of every traditi…
00:17:48 |
Mon 14 Dec 2015
6: Wendi Tells the Story of her Ex-husband’s Murder. Writing Is an Exercise in Trust.
Today we give you Wendi Adelson the way she revealed herself in the first semester. Andrea talks about hot topic, cold prose, a writing technique where the narrator pares down the writing in a diffic…
00:21:42 |
Thu 03 Dec 2015
5: The Lies We Tell
Danny and Bo reveal the lies they've told, especially to themselves. And then the fallout. Danny falls in love with two women but neither knows about the other. Everyone is happy, until he hears a kn…
00:23:30 |
Wed 11 Nov 2015
4: Field Trip to the Fertility Clinic. Freezing Eggs at 6 a.m.
Andrea follows Inessa to the fertility clinic early one morning as she goes through the process of harvesting her eggs, an undertaking not entirely of her doing. We heard in the second episode that M…
00:08:18 |
Tue 13 Oct 2015
3: What Is the Story You Tell about Your Relationship with Your Mother?
Hear what Inessa, Danny, Bo, Jahn, Allison and Andrea confess about their relationships with their moms and how those relationships have shaped their lives. We all tell stories, including to ourselve…
00:16:48 |
Sun 11 Oct 2015
2: How Are You? Really?
In our first class of the semester, we got the writing prompt, "How are you? Really?" Danny and Inessa are two students in the class who share exactly how they are. Danny's story involves underwear. …
00:15:23 |
Sat 10 Oct 2015
1: The Pilot: The Hardest Thing To Write About
Allison Langer and Andrea Askowitz created a podcast of their writing class. On this episode you'll hear what qualifies Andrea to be the teacher. And why Allison insisted the world needs this podcast…
00:26:58 |
Fri 09 Oct 2015
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