Posts Tagged ‘out on the wire’
Episode 8: Your Baby’s Ugly Transcript
We create our transcripts from a combination of our written scripts and machine generated transcriptions, and we expect them to be about 90-95% accurate. For quotations, please consult the actual episode. Back in February of 2012 I sat in—via Skype— at Snap Judgment, a character-driven show of first-person narratives with intense sound design, on what…
Read MoreEpisode 7: Dark Forest, transcript
This is our transcript of Episode 7: Dark Forest, adapted from our script. It’s about 90-95% correct. Please verify against the audio before quoting. So there you are, skipping down the path, writing your story. The sun is shining, birds are chirping, you feel great. You. can. do this. You’ve got your map to guide you—your…
Read MoreEpisode 7: Dark Forest
The Dark Forest is where we go when we’re deep in the writing process and lose our way. Overwhelming feelings of self-doubt, confusion, and inadequacy threaten to halt our stories’ progress. Sometimes, we forget why we started on the path in the first place. Luckily, many people have been here before, and they can help…
Read MoreEpisode 6: Proof of Concept
It’s time to get some ink on that page. We’re in the lab, testing our story hypotheses in the crucible of the writing process. We put things in order, break them down, build them with little blocks, iterate, signpost, and answer the question, “what does Buffy feel?” With the help of Ira Glass, Joe Richman,…
Read MoreEpisode 6: Proof of Concept Transcript
This is our transcript of Episode 6: Proof of Concept, adapted from our script. It’s about 90-95% correct. Please verify against the audio before quoting. Intro I’m Jessica Abel, and we’re going Out on the Wire. The show about making stories, step by step. Out on the Wire is a show about how to tell stories,…
Read MoreRadio: An Illustrated Guide
A collaboration with Ira Glass and This American Life, all about what happens behind the scenes at TAL and how they make their show.
Read MoreEpisode 5: You’re Not Lucky, You’re Just Good
Don’t be lucky. Be good. Manufacture your own luck with the right kind of preparation for an interview. We hear from Zoe Chace, Robert Smith, Ira Glass and Jenna Weiss-Berman on how to research, prepare, and execute an interview that will provide exactly what you need. Plus we talk to New Yorker staff writer Larissa…
Read MoreEpisode 5: You’re not Lucky, You’re Just Good transcript
This is the transcript of Episode 5: You’re not Lucky, You’re Just Good, adapted from our script. It’s about 90-95% correct. Please verify against the audio before quoting. show top Zoe: …We did this interview, and it was not going well. and out of nowhere the guy just shows up with what we wanted. Like, we didn’t…
Read MoreStory toolbox: the Focus Sentence & the XY Story Formula out in the wild
In the Out on the Wire Working Group, the story tools I’m proposing get a major workout. When people put my ideas from the podcast into action, they figure out what works and what doesn’t, and then, because they’re posting about what they find right on the group, I get to learn from them.
Read MoreEpisode 4: Bare Bones Transcript
This is our transcript of Episode 4: Bare Bones, adapted from our script. It’s about 90-95% correct. Please verify against the audio before quoting. Opening: Ira Glass: a story in it’s purest form is one thing coming after the other after the other Chana Joffe-Walt: it comes very naturally to me to do that, this person…
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