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Episode 12: Emotional Hangover. Those Times When You Feel You Told too Much.
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:20:14
Publish Date: 2016-04-30 19:00:00
Description: Have you ever told a story or shared a secret and regretted it? Like you wake up the next morning and you’re like ew, why’d I say that? And then you want to vomit? Today we’re talking about telling stories that give us emotional hangovers. Those times when you feel you told too much. In this episode, Nicki Post tells her story about the time she was raped. Andrea discusses the class rules after someone tells a story. We pretend the person who just told the story isn’t in the room. We address that person as the narrator and talk about what worked and what didn’t work in his or her story. We do this because it creates a separation between the person’s life and the person’s story. The comments can only be about the writing. We can talk about where we got confused in the story. Or where we wanted more details. Or where we wanted less details. Those are the types of comments that are fair game in class. “So even if someone says they were raped, we can’t say, ‘Oh my God, are you okay?’” Another thing that happens in class is the narrator wants to clear up anything people don’t understand, but the narrator has to stay silent. When this happens, Andrea always says, “We don’t care about your life, we care about your story.” That’s true in class, but outside of class, we care about each other’s lives. The day after telling her story in class, the first time Nicki told a group of people (a group of strangers), she speaks to Andrea and Allison about the emotional hangover she experienced after telling her story. She felt pretty bad telling her story. But here’s the thing, she submitted the same story to a live storytelling show in Miami. If you live in Miami, you can see Nicki tell her story this Saturday, May 7th. Nicki told Andrea she’s expecting to have another hangover, but she’s telling her story again anyway. We know that whenever we tell a hard story, whether or not it causes a hangover, it always us brings us closer to the people we’ve told. And when that hangover clears, whatever it was that was so hard to tell, doesn’t feel so hard anymore. We always feel better after telling our story. You’ll hear Italome Ohokihare tell her story from our community class called, A Time I F’d Up. The story is about a time she shoplifted. The prompt for this episode: A time you over-shared. Time yourself for ten minutes, then record your story and email to info@writingclassradio.com. This episode of Writing Class Radio is produced by Misha Mehrel, Allison Langer, and Andrea Askowitz with editorial help from Tobi Ash. Writing Class Radio is sponsored by the University of Miami School of Communication. This episode also sponsored by Bollywood Masala Indian. Indian food made simple. Theme music by Adriel Borshansky. Additional music by Misha Mehrel and Blue Jay. 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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