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
50: We Don't Care About Your Life if it Doesn't Serve this Story
This is our 50th episode and our last episode of Season 5. Today we’re talking about omitting needless words because who has time for excessive blah, blah, blah. You will hear a great example of a st…
00:29:14 |
Wed 07 Nov 2018
49: This is Awkward. Nobody Wants to Talk About Money
Writing about hard topics like money is awkward. No one wants to admit that they have money. And no one wants to admit that they don’t have money. Money is one of those topics that embarrasses people…
00:28:26 |
Wed 03 Oct 2018
48: Get Into a Writing Class So You Can Write About Your F'd Up Family
Today on our show we’re talking about compassion, families, and the legacy they leave. We’re also talking about how to write about those people in our lives who have fucked us up. And who hasn’t been…
00:24:23 |
Tue 04 Sep 2018
47: Show and Tell
In this episode, we examine the popular writing tenet, show DON’T tell. We believe just showing is not only impossible, but detrimental to your story. Telling gives insight into what the narrator is …
00:28:05 |
Wed 01 Aug 2018
46: An Object is More than Just an Object
Today on our show, we're talking about objects. Things like a pen, trash cans, reading glasses, and a scale. We can build stories around these things because these objects affect our lives. They can …
00:27:28 |
Wed 04 Jul 2018
45: Identity is Fuzzy. What's Behind Your Many Faces?
Today we are talking about identity; how sometimes what we show on the outside is not what we feel on the inside. As a storyteller, you have to know who you are. Or try to figure out who you are thro…
00:25:40 |
Wed 06 Jun 2018
44: Voices Carry a Lot of Weight in a Story
The way a story is told out loud adds another layer to a story.
On this episode, we’re talking about how our physical voices can carry a story with inflection, pace, volume, tone, and pitch. Voice …
00:23:17 |
Tue 01 May 2018
43: Voices in Your Head
Writing is a gift of yourself. It should give the reader or listener a glimpse inside. It should be something true and new and vulnerable. In a story, we reveal ourselves through voice. What we mean …
00:21:33 |
Tue 03 Apr 2018
42: Secret Pleasures, Who Are We to Judge?
On this episode, we’re talking about secret pleasures, with a twist. We’re bringing you the winner of our writing contest. We gave the prompt: Secret Pleasure and we got some good ones. Our winner, E…
00:24:00 |
Wed 07 Mar 2018
41: The Moment I Knew Everything Was About to Change
We’re in season 5! We decided, after 40 episodes, to follow a schedule. So please look out for us on the first Wednesday of every month.
On this episode, we’re talking about moments. Going to a mom…
00:28:40 |
Tue 06 Feb 2018
40: Likable Narrator: Be the Biggest Asshole in the Story
On this episode, we’re talking about creating a likable narrator. The narrator is the I in the story. It’s YOU. We see this a lot with beginner writers and we probably did this too, and that is tell …
00:21:58 |
Tue 09 Jan 2018
39: Get Out of Your Way and Write
On today’s episode we’re talking about getting out of our own way when writing a story. The writing process starts with getting the truth on paper. We write about situations or problems we’re dealing…
00:20:21 |
Mon 11 Dec 2017
38: Write Better by Mimicking the Masters
On today’s episode we’re talking about mimicking the masters the way you’d imagine a painting class in Paris that goes to the Louvre to practice painting like Leonardo de Vinci. We think it’s worth c…
00:19:04 |
Tue 21 Nov 2017
37: Ready to Write that Memoir or Novel? Nov. is National Novel Writing Month
November is #NaNoWriMo (https://nanowrimo.org/), and we have executive director, Grant Faulkner (http://www.grantfaulkner.com/), on our show.
Today we’re talking about novels because we go both ways…
00:33:20 |
Wed 01 Nov 2017
36: Hurricanes and Stories Define Us, Since the Beginning of Time
On this episode of Writing Class Radio we ask for your support, because producing ain’t free. Please go to writingclassradio.com and hit the donate button.
This podcast is equal parts heart (the tr…
00:35:52 |
Tue 17 Oct 2017
35: What Makes You You?
This episode of Writing Class Radio is dedicated to everyone who’s dealing with some kind of natural disaster. For us in Florida, the last two weeks have been all consuming and also terrifying. Our h…
00:31:01 |
Tue 19 Sep 2017
34: Let's Ignore Writing Class Protocol and Talk About Our Lives
In this episode, we go off the rails...a little. We invited our class into Allison’s living room where in addition to writing advice, we gave life advice. Allison believes that the better we know our…
00:24:12 |
Sat 19 Aug 2017
33: Great Writing Starts With a Question. What Don’t You Understand?
In this episode, you will meet the winner of Writing Class Radio’s spring writing contest. The prompt: Write about something you don’t understand. Andrea suggests that great writing starts with a que…
00:17:54 |
Tue 01 Aug 2017
32: Will This Ever End?
In this episode, Allison and Andrea are talking about endings. How to end an essay when often the issues we write about are ongoing. Should we know the ending when we begin? Does the end of the essay…
00:32:08 |
Tue 11 Jul 2017
31: Take Me Into Your World
In this episode, Allison and Andrea are talking about worlds again because Andrea got so excited by Nilsa’s story in the episode Can You Hear Me if I Can't Hear You? where she brought us into the wor…
00:25:45 |
Mon 19 Jun 2017
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