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Bonus Episode: Will You Love Me Forever or Just on Valentine's Day?
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:23:21
Publish Date: 2016-02-10 18:00:00
Description: 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 bonus episode. This episode is a little different. Slightly less teachy, thought not without this lesson: A good way to approach a story is to ask a question and then to try to answer it. You’ll meet students from season two and you’ll hear from some of regulars that you already know. You’ll hear their questions about love. Miriam Herman, a new student, writer, programmer and mathematician asks if it’s true that once you love someone, you love them forever? Cynthia Castillo, another new student writes, teaches, coaches, mentors, and heals. Cynthia’s story is about friendship love, a love we assume will be there forever. Cynthia asks: What if our best friend is not here forever? Nicki is an artist and traveler who spent her twenties living abroad. Now she works with international students at U.M.. In her response to the prompt love, Nicki mentions The Moth, which is a storytelling competition. So every month there’s a theme and every February the theme is Love Hurts. This bugs Nicki. Nicki asks, why is everyone so pathetic about love this month? On the one hand, Allison agrees with Nicki Post that we’re here to love as much as possible. On the other hand, it sounds like Allison’s giving up on love. Allison asks: Is love even worth the effort? You find out why Andrea’s story got cut even though she thinks it’s possible to create an extraordinary story out of an ordinary situation. After hearing all the stories, we have concluded this: It seems like different phases of life and different types of love bring up different questions. If we’re talking about a lover, will we love that person forever? If we’re talking about friends, will our friends be around to love us forever? If it’s February, will we always be so pathetic about love? If we’re Allison, will love ever be worth the bother? Your assignment is to set a timer for ten minutes. Write without stopping. Follow your mind. Just go where it takes you. If what you write has nothing to do with the prompt, that’s okay. There is no wrong way to do a prompt. When the timer goes off, stop. Then read what you wrote into your voice memo on your phone and email it to us at info@writingclassradio.com Here’s the prompt: What is the question you ask about love? We got a story from a listener in Ireland. Dave responded to the prompt: What do you have to lose? It’s also a love story, which asks the question: What do I have to lose? This episode is dedicated to Cynthia’s friend, who died a few days after Cynthia wrote her story. Writing Class Radio is produced by Diego Saldana-Rojas, Allison Langer and Andrea Askowitz. This episode was produced with additional editorial support from Tobi Ash and Sonesh Chainani. Writing Class Radio is sponsored by and recorded at the University of Miami School of Communication. Theme music is by Astromaps. Additional music by The Mann Sisters. And love songs were performed throughout by writing class radio student, Misha Mehrel. Links to the artists can be found at writingclassradio.com where there is more writing class. Study the stories we study, listen to our craft-talks, follow our daily prompts. There’s no better way to understand ourselves and each other, than by writing and sharing our stories. Everyone has a story. What’s yours?
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