Editing for the audience.

November 1, 2017 Stefan Hostetter

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.

Cut! Cut Cut!

October 18, 2017 Stefan Hostetter

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.

Find your moment.

September 20, 2017 Stefan Hostetter

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.