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Story from Scratch

Oct 29, 2019

This spooky episode, Yale and Justin discuss their love for the Halloween season and how they came to enjoy it so much. Yale tries to nail down what he thinks is scary. Justin explains his yearly tradition and recommends some truly scary films!

As promised, our co-hosts do a deep-dive into the 2014 film, The Babadook....


Oct 21, 2019

This episode, Yale and Justin discuss the difficulties of writing, especially keeping a consistent vision, maintaining motivation, and how struggling with these difficulties makes writing worthwhile. 

Our co-hosts touch on the essence of a story once again, as they try to break down how the process of writing works for...


Oct 1, 2019

This episode, Yale and Justin do some character work! Yale's favorite. He leads Justin down a path of abstractly defining the roles of each of the characters and together, they stumble upon each of their motivations along the way!

Feeling really productive, our duo even ventures to establish the dynamic of our group of...


Sep 24, 2019

This episode, Yale and Justin buckle down and really make a lot of world-building decisions for STRANDED.

In doing so, our co-hosts stumble on some surprisingly appropriate motivations, as well as decide the major beats that the story should have. Yale gets excited about Goodfellas, Justin gets a taste of Yale's...


Sep 16, 2019

This episode, Yale and Justin talk about how to balance writing two different projects at the same time. Yale also asks how he can feel more confident about his story ideas, worried that they might all end up reading like they are the same story. Justin gives legitimately good advice and talks about his foray into...