Check out some of the excitement from our Stories of Home event during National Housing Week in November 2017.
Photographs by Elisa D'Arcangelo. Set design by Maximilian Suillerot Wilke.
What Happened
PD: Welcome to the podcast! If you’re confused, tweet #SWDTconfused at @jeffreypauldore and @Steho_. We are very excited because we are back on a little bit of a roll of including stories again.
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SH: Today we're going to talk a little bit about venues because two of our last shows were in new venues and that's always exciting for us in part because it's actually how our show has grown. People invite their friends to their house for this thing and the more people learn about us, the more each new venue brings a whole different vibe to the experience.
PD: We were at an event the other night and somebody asked me all about the importance of doing the live show in houses. We didn't realize how important this was going to be and it was almost an arbitrary decision. We didn't know really what was going to happen and it was like let's just do this at your apartment. There wasn't necessarily a big theory behind it at the beginning.
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This blog includes transcriptions from our Stories of Home podcast minis-series. Have a listen to all the episodes on the Stories We Don’t Tell Podcast. As of this posting, there still might be some tickets left for Stories of Home on Thursday, November 23rd, but they’re going fast! Tickets available at Eventbrite.
Read moreEditing for the audience.
This is our final episode in our mini-series: 'don't take this advice'. We like that this is advice you shouldn't feel pressured to take. This is a safe space. We feel quite strongly about this last piece of advice.
So you have a story and it feels good but you are about to present it to an audience.
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Check out some of the excitement from our September 2017 event. Join us in November for Stories We Don't Tell: Ten Thousand Leagues.
Photographs by Elisa D'Arcangelo.
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This is part four of our five part series: don't take this advice. But, if you're going to take one piece of advice, make it this one: cut, cut, cut. Basically: edit, edit, edit.
This might seem very obvious. Every piece of advice usually seems obvious but people don't do it. People just don't do it. When people don't edit, they don't fully understand what their story is about. And so they think they need to include a whole bunch of other information that doesn't necessarily relate to their actual story. And so they include a lot of parts at the beginning getting the audience all caught up, when a lot of those details might not matter. It really comes down to knowing what your story actually is about.
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Check out some of the excitement from our September 2017 event. Join us in October for Stories We Don't Tell: Harvest Moon.
Photographs by Elisa D'Arcangelo.
Context!
This is part 3 of our five part series: don't take this advice. In this episode we're talking about context and setting the scene.
We think it can it can take different forms. First, you want to place people in the environment with you. It depends on what kind of story you're telling, what kind of tone it is, what the theme is and what you're trying to accomplish with it. Remember that you are guiding an audience to go along with you in the story - whether emotionally or you just want them to enjoy the story or whatever. We think it is important to place yourself or whatever the story is about in some type of context. Where it is or what we're talking about here.
Read moreFind your moment.
Welcome to the Stories We Don't Tell Podcast and our mini-series about 'not taking our advice'. The idea here is you can write a great story without this advice. But if you get stuck maybe this helps.
So, you've got a whole bunch of words written down and you're trying to figure out where the story is. Today we're looking at finding your moment and slowing things down. First you define the moment. Finding that thing that happens - the one moment that really matters to you and inspired you to write the story in the first place.
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This is a five part series to open up Season 3 of the podcast and we're calling it 'don't take this advice'. So it's five pieces of advice that you don't have to follow but that if you're feeling stuck these are some things you can do.
These are also just some tricks and tips that we've learned after doing this for years and participating in a lot of workshops and helping guide a lot of people through their stories. These are just things that we either keep coming back to or that just seemed to be helpful.
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