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Episode 33: Great Writing Starts With a Question. What Don’t You Understand?
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:30:09
Publish Date: 2017-07-31 19:00:00
Description: Writing Class Radio is a podcast that brings you true, personal stories written in an actual memoir writing class and ideas about how to write your own stories. Student Allison Langer loves the process of pouring her heart out on paper then reading it out loud. She’s all heart. Teacher Andrea Askowitz loves tearing stories apart. She asks, “What is this story about?” and then helps to find the answer. She’s loves the craft, the art. This podcast is equal parts heart and art. 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 question. Writing is about figuring out what you don’t understand. It’s a discovery process. Contest winner, Jeana Fleming’s reads her story. After, Andrea and Allison weigh in on why they chose her story and what makes the writing so great. Allison talks about Exchange for Change, an organization based in Miami, Florida that offers writing classes to incarcerated men and women. Allison spends two hours every Wednesday with 16 inmates at the Dade Correctional Institute. She helps them write their true and personal stories. If you’d like to learn more about Exchange for change, head to their website. Exchangeforchange.org Thank you for listening to Writing Class Radio. If you want to hear your story on the show, pick one of our website daily prompts or follow us on twitter (@wrtgclassradio). Then record what you wrote using your voice memo and send it to us at info@writingclassradio.com. If you have a business or a startup and need help telling your story, Andrea will come to your office and teach all your employees how to better articulate why they do what they do. Do it! Stories sell. Allison will come to your retreat and help guests write through their shit so they can live free and happier. Writing Class Radio is produced by Virginia lora, Allison Langer and Andrea Askowitz. Theme music by Ari Herstand. Additional music by, Podington Bear, Adriel Borshansky, and Weinland. Writing Class Radio is sponsored by and recorded at the University of Miami School of Communication. This episode is sponsored by The Sanibel Island Writers Conference. November 2-5, 2017. There’s more writing class on our website, twitter (@wrtgclassradio) and facebook. Study the stories we study and listen to our craft-talks. Write along with our community by posting on our daily prompt page or record what you wrote with the voice memo on your cell phone and email it to us at to info@writingclassradio.com. Study the stories we study and listen to our craft-talks. 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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