MNINS: Season 3, Episode 5 – Listener Request – Character vs. Plot Driven Stories

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Welcome to Season 3, Episode 5 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Per listener request, Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer talk about the differences between stories driven by characters versus those driven by plot. Mobile Users Listen Here or Subscribe on ITunes In […]

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MNINS: Season 2, Episode 6 – Finding New Life in an Old Series

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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 6 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling with People Not Named Steve. This time we talk about attempts to bring new life into old material, using NCIS, Castle and Dr. Who as examples and how that relates to Gabby Wells. Mobile Users Listen […]

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NCIS – Knowing When To End the Series

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We talked about how best to introduce characters in your story.  Now let’s talk about how stories should end. Some writers are called pantsers and some are plotters.  Pantsers don’t know the end of the story before they begin.  They discover the story as it goes along.  Plotters plot out their story, knowing how it […]

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