Here Be Tygers: Your Storytelling Guide
48 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBeyond the stories that we write just to *sell*, there are three fundamental reasons for the tales that we tell: to inspire a thought, course of action, or remember something by. And the trust, impact or legacy that those through your audience--or market or tribe--will provide.
Hosted by professional writer, strategist and storytelling guide, Jarod Cerf, Here Be Tygers is a show for creatives and entrepreneurs alike about "taking life by the tale": from the ones that you'll write to all the rest that define where you want to arrive.
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"Apocryphal Texts & Tails Without End" with Ken H.
December 08, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 173 MBHey all, Today’s episode is part of a conversation I had with my friend, radio expert, and archaeological buff, Ken. You may recognize him from our earlier world-building eps. 2 & 8, “Rambling Man” and “The Unforgiving Tree”, where we first delved into some of the more unusual places in the world of Here Be Tygers. Since then, I’ve discovered some peculiar (and perhaps, particular) threads about faith and the gods and things that occurred in the “way back, when…”. That I needed to cha...
"When the Dreamer Doth Not Lie", with David Herman & Nic Lori
November 15, 2021 18:47 - 54 minutes - 124 MBHey all, My apologies for the delay on this week. I’ve been severely ill since last Thursday, and am still finding it difficult to breathe, much less speak. Today’s episode comes from a world-building series on "how to create a space in which you can create", without fear of what might change or persist, that we ran for our patrons earlier this year. You’ll probably recognize the first two voices you hear as the neuroscientist, Nic Lori, and my co-host, Dave Herman. They did such a wonde...
Lesson 0: How to Decide when You're in a Critical or Creative 'State of Mind', with Dave Herman
October 28, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBWe’re here today to provide you with a bit of a preface for our upcoming miniseries on the ‘Seven Great Rules to Writing Stories that Sell’. These are things I found myself teaching all the time, so before we go into them, I thought it would be helpful for Dave and I to talk about what to do *before* you write—a ‘Lesson 0’, if you will. And how you can shift from a critical (‘what is…?’) state of mind to a more creative (‘what if…?’) one when you’d like. We’ll also share some of the more p...
"The Stories We Tell Ourselves" with Kate Wallinga, Part 2
October 14, 2021 01:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBHey all, We’re sharing the rest of our conversation with Kate from “Ignorance was Bliss” today. At first, we’d thought about having it all in one ep, but there was enough of significance, impact, and quality to warrant a different time for the rest. Above all, “The Stories We Tell Ourselves” is a reflection on the ones that we choose and the ones that we let: how much of our life is decided by them is something we get to decide. And to rewrite. Revise. So I invite you, as you listen to b...
"The Stories We Tell Ourselves" with Kate Wallinga, Part 1
September 30, 2021 01:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBHey all, For our second convo in the lead up to the “Seven Great Rules” miniseries, we invited Kate Wallinga, a former forensic psychologist, crisis clinician and host of “Ignorance was Bliss.” In our earlier talks with Kate, the notion of how we make sense of our world in order to “get by” came up quite a few times. So we decided to record a few episodes on the stories we tell ourselves: about the folks that we know, the ones that we don’t, and our own everyday life. And how, if we can ...
"Needs, Wants, Desires & the Truths that We Live By", with Jesse Harless
September 16, 2021 01:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBHey all, We’re continuing our lead up to the miniseries on the ‘Seven Great Rules’ that I teach to both creatives and entrepreneurs alike, so that they tales they tell will be true, sincere and come fully to life. With that I mind, I invited facilitator, addiction coach, and author of “If Not You, Then Who?”, Jesse Harless, to the show. As both an addiction survivor and tireless entrepreneur, he speaks to not only the tales that we tell of our own lives, but also the ones that—as indivi...
"Why Legacy Matters for those who Create", with Matt Selznick
September 02, 2021 01:00 - 51 minutes - 118 MBWe’re returning this week with our current guest, Matt S., for the second half our conversation on what it means to be a storyteller and why “legacy” —what you provide and where that helps them to arrive—matters for those who create. You’ll also hear us speak quite a bit about your tribe, or ‘those who provide’. These are the folks who are with you for life. Who will go with you on that journey again and again in exchange for those essential currencies of money, information and time. Why? ...
"What it Means to *be* a Storyteller" with Matt Selznick
August 18, 2021 20:07 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBHey all, I had to take somewhat of an unexpected break last month. As you may know, my father had been quite ill. And on the 8th of last month, we received word that he had passed away. It is still difficult for me, fully, to articulate what these past few weeks have been like. But I did promise myself that I’d return to the show. That I’d continue to write and to be your guide. So here we are today. The conversation you’re about to hear is a preface to the miniseries that we’ll launch s...
"What it Means to *be* a Storyteller" with Matt Selznick, Part 1
August 18, 2021 20:07 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBHey all, I had to take somewhat of an unexpected break last month. As you may know, my father had been quite ill. And on the 8th of last month, we received word that he had passed away. It is still difficult for me, fully, to articulate what these past few weeks have been like. But I did promise myself that I’d return to the show. That I’d continue to write and to be your guide. So here we are today. The conversation you’re about to hear is a preface to the miniseries that we’ll launch soon, ...
"How to Know if What You Create Has 'Worth'", with Stephen Herman
June 09, 2021 16:00 - 40 minutes - 92.2 MBHey all, Today’s episode is somewhat of a companion piece to the previous one, so if you haven’t listened to that yet, I suggest you give it a go. For those who have, we’ll be continuing our chat with philosopher and medical ethicist, Stephen Herman, about the worlds we perceive, the different lives they allow us to lead, and why we imagine in order to define truths or close to them, reach. So join us today as we talk about magical lands, Faust, analogies, and how we shape things into be...
"...of All Possible Worlds", with Stephen Herman
May 24, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBIn his book, The Origins of Creativity, biologist E.O. Wilson argues for a new way forward: one that embraces both the sciences and the arts (the possible with the conceivable) as a means to achieve a better life in this, and potentially other worlds. So with that vision in mind, I decided to invite my friend, philosopher and medical ethicist, Stephen Herman onto the show. With the hope, or perhaps intent, that a few smaller discussions--on the search for shared meaning, how language and ...
"What Stories Are & Where They Help Us Arrive", with Steven Leavitt, Pt 2
April 30, 2021 21:44 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBHey all, This is the second half of my conversation with music and audio producer and coach, Steven Leavitt, for his show The Language of Creativity. In the last episode, we talked about the stories we create and how we so often attach ourselves to them and why, in our work, play and everyday life. So for today, we’ll continue from that note into not only the tale that I write, but how I learn from that journey and what it entailed both the how and for whom I provide. I hope you enjoy...
"What Stories Are & Where They Help Us Arrive", with Steven Leavitt, Pt 1
April 12, 2021 16:00 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBHey all, For today’s ep (and the next), we’re going to change things up a little by sharing a conversation I had with my friend Steven Leavitt on his show, The Language of Creativity. Steven and I both work with a number of creatives in our everyday life. So we wanted to dispel a few myths about what that can be like, from where and how ‘art’ is derived, to the ways that our stories emerge—fiction or not—from the truths we define. And like many tales, we go on a bit of a yarn at first—...
"Unraveling Ends," Why We Love or Despise Them
March 25, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBWe often talk on the show about how and when things begin, so I thought it would be useful today to discuss where they end: when all the truths of your tale lead to a certain place, when all the work that you do helps folks to arrive where they’d like to—in their work, in their life, in their play—and in a better state. But what makes an ending ‘good’, makes it right, makes you and your market, audience or tribe feel like you’ve arrived, that ‘this, here, is fine’ at the end of the journe...
"The Economies of Self, Consciousness & Time" with neuroscientist Nicolas Lori
February 28, 2021 18:16 - 1 hour - 204 MBHey all, This was a somewhat surreal episode for me to return to after we recorded it in what seems such a long time ago (back in 2016). I usually save these for later in the season, but Covid as of late has been cruel to my family and my dad’s back in the hospital with leukemia, so...it’s put me in bit of a reflective state, I suppose. I mentioned before, in season one, that I’d have my longtime friend, the neuroscientist Nicolas Lori, on at some point in the show. This is this first—an...
"The World(s) that We Make", with Lisa Trott, Head of Marketing and Community at Multiverse
February 15, 2021 20:07 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBJoining today: storyteller, game developer and Head of Marketing and Community at Multiverse, Lisa Trott Hey all, A fan of the show introduced us to Multiverse, an online video game platform, a few months ago. Since then, we’ve worked with the development team on a number of episodes; which reflects our shared interest, I think, on how stories are told, the means to create, and why worth follows from the lives that we help people make. So join us today as we talk with Lisa Trott, the ...
Here Be Tygers, Season 2 Trailer
February 01, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.52 MBHey all, We’ll be back soon with an incredible season full of new guests (plus those that you’ve met before), fantastic tales, and some dedicated time to questions, ideas and insights on how to use storytelling in your work, play, and everyday life. Oh, and don’t forget to follow us at our new home on @csuiteradio. -J Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/herebetygers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/herebety...
“A Lark with Some of Fans...”
December 31, 2020 19:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBHey all, This episode was mostly a lark with a few fans of our shows, who wanted a little reprieve from this year and the ways that it sometimes goes. So we decided to watch some movies, games and television shows that were great (and others less so) while we were waiting for new audio gear... And to share a little bit of the levity for which both our end-of-the-year episodes and sibling shows, The Geekly Oddcast and Odder Worlds, are known. We hope you enjoy, - J Support the show (http://w...
“Friendship is (Insert Adjective)...?”, an HBT Workshop with Dave Herman
December 23, 2020 20:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBHey all, As we wind the year down, we wanted to give you a taste of what some our future episodes will be like. Starting in Season 2, we’ll provide you with three different kinds of conversation on how you can use storytelling to teach, entertain and guide the folks in your work, play and everyday life. During our Interview or Teach episodes, we’ll talk to Creative Entrepreneurs about how to reach out to your market, audience and tribe, connect what you make to what they want out of life, an...
The Four Essential Beats of Narrative, Part 2
November 30, 2020 18:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBHey all, This is the second half of our conversation on the ‘four essential beats of narrative’: namely, the sad, funny, beautiful and weird. They’re not the only beats that matter, of course. But they often give, direction, flow or a shape to the moments that hold us captive or impact us the greatest. And though we may start with a fairly deep exploration of one of our favorite storytellers, Hayao Miyazaki, the foundational tropes, motifs and narrative elements he plays with—the loss of inn...
The Four Essential Beats of Narrative, Part 1
November 11, 2020 22:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBHey all, What you’re about to hear is the first half of a much longer conversation on the four essential beats of narrative and how storytellers have used them both now and in the past to compel, inspire, repulse or attract. As you listen, I invite you to think of your favorite stories—fiction or not—and why they’ve had such an impact. Then consider the most powerful moments you’re reminded of, and how you were moved from the first beat to the last. Oh and this was recorded during my recover...
“How to Write for an Unusual Life(form)“, with Stephen and Dave Herman
October 14, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBJoining today: two of the three Brothers Herman, engineer Dave and medical ethicist & philosopher Steven, with all of their knowledge combined Xenobiology. Astrobiology. And all of the fictional kinds. The worlds we imagine, define, are teeming to full with strange and unusual life: beings who either don’t follow the rules that we know—or out of necessity create new order in their time. But how do you make them seem real, do you ground our encounters with them in the world(s) that you writ...
“Friends of all Stripes”: Animals in Folklore, Myth and our Lives, with Julie Saillant
September 21, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBJoining today: intuitive healer, animal whisperer / human guide, and host of Motivational Addict, Julie Saillant Although animals feature prominently is many of the stories we tell—as fully detailed characters with their own folklore and lives, as other peoples or tribes within the world(s) where we dwell, and even sometimes as a proxy for ourselves—we often find it hard, ‘in real life’, to know what they’re thinking as well. But every so often we can hear, gain a sense, for what goes on th...
Dazed & Confused (But Unafraid)
August 31, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBJoining today: engineer, pop culture critic, and host of Odder Worlds, Dave Herman Why do we stop? Cease to continue with the things that we love, that we create? That keep us up in the morning, at odd hours, throughout our everyday? Confusion. Inertia. Fear of what’s still to come—or yet may. If you want to create, as a hobby, profession, form of personal expression or as the eminent biologist E.O. Wilson might say, to live in a not-as-of-yet fully inhabited space—then you’ll know what it’...
“Where the Beats Have No Name, Pt 2“ with David Herman
July 31, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBIn the first half my conversation with Dave, we talked about the four elements of narrative pacing: the premise, your beats, what the audience ‘sees’ and where those should lead. Today we’ll take a deeper look into the heart of things, or rather, ‘the heart of the scene’: that moment from which all of your beats will drive to or flow. This ‘heart’, as we’ll show, usually taps into what a character cherishes, wants or desires above all else (even in a slight way), reveals some truth of the wor...
“Where the Beats Have No Name, Pt 1“ with David Herman
July 15, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBJoining today: humorist, game maker and the host of Odder Worlds, David Herman There’s a moment in every story’s life where it will go a different way than the one you had in mind. When that’s done well, it can lead to a great or even wondrous surprise. But sometimes the premise, the beats, and the end destination just don’t align: what you expect doesn’t lead anywhere, the moments that should have been are not there, or you don’t know how—at this place—you’ve arrived. What do you do when th...
“Grace”, with Alive Inside’s Michael Rosatto-Bennett
June 17, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBJoining today: filmmaker, documentarian, and Executive producer of Alive Inside, Michael Rosatto-Bennett I’ve held on to this interview for awhile. I had plenty of reasons: it was old, it was too noisy, it was live; I wasn’t sure of where it would go—none of them ‘right’. But that’s the funny thing about grace. It doesn’t come when you’d like, just in the moments between; when you listen, you wait, you hold something too small on its own to survive. Our guest today has a few stories about...
“In a Series of Kindnesses...” with IHMC’s Mark Daniel & William Howell
May 15, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBJoining today: William Howell, Senior Creative and Multimedia Producer for the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, and Mark Daniel, a research associate at IHMC and their exoskeleton pilot Earlier this year, I had a chance to meet with two remarkable people: IHMC’s Mark Daniel and Billy Howell. They’d just finished speaking at the Podfest Expo in Orlando, where they presented a machine—a part of the team’s collaborative research—that could help a man to his feet, that could give to his ...
“I Sing the Body Eclectic!”, with Eric Nevins
April 22, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBJoining today: practicing evangelical, Masters of Divinity in spiritual formation, and the host of Halfway There, Eric Nevins The words around ‘faith’—that belief in numinous, the eternal, the ethereal, the strange—are often fraught with our own experience of how others would frame it. There are dogmas and proofs, liturgies, claims; but the journey we take is a personal one—sometimes with great struggle or of uncertain length. For Eric Nevins, a practicing evangelical, Masters of Divinity in ...
“Choosing Life, That You May Live” with Deanna Won
March 27, 2020 23:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBJoining today: former Air Force colonel, Health Coach and stage-four ovarian cancer survivor, Deanna Won How do you choose—do you define—who you are and what to do when you have only a month left to ‘your time’? When the doctors describe to you symptoms, procedures and what your few weeks in hospice will be like? For Deanna Won, a former military colonel, scientist and trained fighter, that decision to want, to survive, to take back her autonomy, chase her dreams, regain her life started wit...
On Narrative ‘Arks’, the Weird & the Wild, with Julia Perch
March 10, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBJoining today: Julia Perch, a Russian-American psychiatrist, illustrator and writer of the upcoming novel, Umbra Julia and I first met in an online writing group, where she confessed that she was struggling with some friends and family who felt that her story was either a work of witchcraft or inspired by the devil. As a tremendous believer in the power of dreams, imagination, and what lives on in the emptiest places of our minds, this hurt her deeply. But still, she was inspired to write; to...
“The Mad Flight, Part 2”
February 29, 2020 21:00 - 2 hours - 88.2 MBAs promised, we return this month with the second half (and finale!) to our adventures in Microscope: a storytelling game about all the ‘big things’ that happen and the smaller scenes between. So join us tonight as our mad flight resumes with multiple clones, flavors of ice cream, androids, and the consumption of our would-be saviors. - J Show Notes • “The Girl from Ipanema”, orig. by Antônio Carlos Jobim & Vinicius de Moraes; performed by NOVA • Rules for playing Microscope with your crew,...
“The Mad Flight, Part 1”
December 31, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBOccasionally, Dave, Pablo, sometimes Stephen, and I get up to shenanigans. This is one of those times. Microscope is a game of what’s true and not right about the world. And what follows from that, as a tale—as a narrative—that we define. Or at least it should be, in practice, in theory. Until we tried. With apologies to candy, teeth, Star Wars/Trek, Battlestar Galactica, androids and anything else that I forgot tonight. Here’s the first half of what happens when we make a soon-to-be-real ta...
Kobold Blue
November 05, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBJoining today: entertainer, co-host of The Geekly Oddcast, and host of Odder Worlds, David Herman What if an advent was something left behind by the gods, as proof that your gift had been recognized? Or currencies an acknowledgement of the relationship between those of great need and those with great power or verve? If what you were worth was measured not by success but the work? We’ve spoken before about what makes an ‘earth’. But the things that make that work—currencies, faith, presence, ...
Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright!
October 12, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBHey all, Sometimes life is weird. And sometimes it goes strange. And sometimes you just have to sift through them both to see what new and unusual things you can make. Fortunately, we’re at a point now where I can describe that shape: Long story short, Here Be Tygers is growing again. We’ll still be on Patreon, but you’ll see and hear both some new and a few more familiar faces. That’s right. Starting today, you can find Here Be Tygers, Myopia: Defend Your Childhood, and The Geekly Oddcast/...
“Who Will Lead Us Next?”, with Eddie Turner
August 30, 2019 20:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBJoining today: Eddie Turner, a professional coach, host of Keep Leading, and author of 140 Simple Messages To Guide Emerging Leaders Back in 2016, before Here Be Tygers was ever a name to this show, I started Jam Sessions as a sort of informal chat with folks about who they are, what they do and where they wanted to go. Eddie was gracious enough to be our first guest and to this day I remain grateful to him for helping me onto a path where I could do the work that I love with people I know....
The Life We Live Behind Glass, with Lilibet Snellings
July 31, 2019 22:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBJoining today: author Lilibet Snellings, author of BOX GIRL: My Part-Time Job as an Art Installation (from Soft Skull Press) and the funniest person you know with MS The first thing I remember from my initial call to Lilibet was her talent for setting the dramatic to a well-lit narrative; one where all the places and players are carefully examined, illustrated, and given vibrancy by their all-too-human quips (we also share an addiction to bulleted lists and numbered collections, handwritten n...
The Different Worlds that We Live In & Imagine, with Andre Rodriguez
June 24, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBJoining today: digital modeler for Blue Sky Studios, teacher and panelist on Diverse Toons, Andre Rodriguez It’s easy to imagine a story: the decisions, mistakes, and sacrifices that can drive someone. And so much harder to survive, forgive, outlast the ‘character’ we can become in another person’s life. But what happens when the world we live in decides that for us? When we try to escape the lines, the tales that other people would define us by? How do we, as Andre would say, ‘find our squa...
The Wizards Who Gave Us Power, with Eric Brach
December 28, 2018 20:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBJoining today: journalist and co-author of Conquering the Electron: the Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels who Built our Electronic Age, Eric Brach Most of the crew is off and away for the holidays, so I thought it might be a fun treat to revisit one of my earliest episodes from a previous show. Back then, I was focused almost entirely on authors and their work. So I created In Character to reflect how the people who write our favorite stories often have unusual tales of their...
“In the Matter of...” with Dave Geiger
October 24, 2018 04:00 - 54 minutes - 24.9 MBJoining today: author, essay writer, and advocate for mental health and criminal justice reform, Dave Geiger Not every life goes according to ‘the plan’: be it God’s, some shadowy conspirator’s, or our own expectations at the time. We like to think in those moments—when we’re asked to change, to ‘do what’s right’, and revise our plans—that what we see and feel and act upon is irrefutable, or at the least, something we can rely on. But what happens, and how do we define ourselves, when our ow...
The Unforgiving Tree
September 05, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 38.2 MBJoining today: longtime friend and fan of sci-fi, horror and Picard, Ken Hurt. Sometimes, the world of Here Be Tygers is a kind, forgiving place. And sometimes, it’s an evening or night away from the fires that ‘those who dream too much’ cannot escape. On today’s episode, Ken and I talk about what it’s like to give a part of your world it’s own sense of time and space—before the story or your main characters arrive there. From places fantastic to the more mundane aspects of daily life, we’ll...
Interview with a Webcomic Writer, Brad Guigar
July 30, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBJoining today: creator of Phables, Greystone Inn, and Evil Inc, writer of The Webcomics Handbook, and host of ComicLab, Brad Guigar Brad and I met at a Patreon live event earlier this year and within the first five minutes I knew we had to invite him. He’s full of stories and advice; just the kind of people we like. And he’s had quite the interesting career: from newspaper apprentice and early webcomic writer (think Geocities, Angelfire) to successful creator, mentor, advisor and Eisner Awar...
A Mid-sized Sea Journey, Part 2
June 22, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.9 MBAnd we’re back! Hope you all enjoyed the break while we set things up at our new home. Last time, Dave and I talked about a few of our favorite tales and how they pull the reader in right from the beginning. So now we’ll share a few of our own, mostly from actual play or in-real-time storytelling games: the kind where the players can decide their own fate, the characters take on a strange life, and failures, mistakes, and the unexpected, shared delight can lead to a surprising change. What w...
A Mid-sized Sea Journey, Part 1
April 18, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 31.5 MBJoining today: frequent guest and Odder Worlds host, David Herman of TheBrothersHerman. Though it may seem odd, the starting point of any tale we devise is often the hardest to find. Sometimes it helps to see what other bodies of work have done well (or not) and why. And sometimes we wander off into the wilds of the stuff we like before we talk about the tools, ideas and techniques we’ve tried. - J Like what you hear and want to see more of what I write? Leave a review or show your suppor...
Be Kind to Your Squamous, Toothed & Undulate Friends
March 16, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 34.4 MBJoining today: short story and horror writer, Matt Quinn, and author of The Thing in The Woods. What happens when you allow a writer to take revenge on his fictional hometown? We talk with Matt about the Southern aesthetic, his love for monsters and splatter effects, and the many celebrities he would cast. I had a rather severe bout of bronchitis when we recorded this, so please forgive any unusual sounds that might be present. - J Like what you hear and want to see more of what I write...
“Hello, World!”/The Circle Game
February 28, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 40.4 MBJoining today: Two-thirds of The Brothers Herman and Geekly Oddcast hosts, Stephen and Dave What can I say? We sang a lot of Joni Mitchell and Jefferson Airplane when I was a child (I believe White Rabbit was my favorite). And yes, that is a title shout to some antesocial programming language. Sadly, the time lapse of our terrestrial efforts perished on that same day; though one artist’s rendering of the attempt yet remains. Which leaves us with an interesting question: did those who drea...
Rambling Man
February 21, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 36.2 MBJoining today: Sci-fi, horror, and wrestling fan, and also my friend of over two decades, Ken H. “Confusion,” as my screenwriting professor, Syd Field, used to say, “is the first step toward clarity.” Well that and, “the act of writing is like that of surfing: first, you have to catch the wave...” After which, he paused and let us contemplate. ”And then?” We asked. To which he paused again, then stared at us, and laughed. “I was hoping one of you could fill in the rest.” Sometimes it’...
“I Hit a Rock!”
February 17, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 32.7 MBJoining today: my longtime friends and two-thirds of our gaming group, David Herman (of The Geekly Oddcast and @BrothersHerman) and Pablo DiFerrari We were rather punchy when we started this (12am) and supremely so by the end (at 2am). Nevertheless, we prevailed and had ourselves a grand old time by a coffee table with the ends of my world, a giant rock, and the sorts of folk of who would survive them. Oh, and there might be spoilers. I hope you enjoy. - J (Noah's Stark) written & p...