Podcast training: scriptwriting & the architecture of storytelling

Have an idea for a narrative podcast, but aren’t sure where to begin? Or maybe you’ve already started your big project, but feel stuck in the messy middle of editing. In this two-hour workshop, Stanford podcasting lecturer Laura Joyce Davis and Radio-Mercury Award winner Nate Davis share practical tools and award-winning strategies for scriptwriting and editing narrative podcasts. Whether you’re just starting out or a veteran podcaster, you’ll come away from this workshop with tools to work smarter and better immediately.

You’ll get exercises and live coaching for:

• building a strong narrative arc

• pulling great stories from interview tape

• mapping out your story in scenes

• crafting dynamite openings

• writing for the ear

• getting unstuck and overcoming writer’s block

• diagnostic tools for editing yourself (and others)

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Workshop length: two hours
Workshop date: June/July 2024
Workshop time: 9-11 a.m. PST
Workshop format: zoom call with breakouts & feedback

Workshops will be available as a video stream the week after, including slides with exercises.

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Note: space is limited to 25 attendees per workshop.