Hosted by Ryan Dunlap · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 25 episodes
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Connecting families through storytelling. Invite your child into a meaningful story and reignite your own imagination as we walk you through the cooperative writing process with lessons and activities that helped my children and I publish our own books (and more importantly, spend time together). fictionsmith.substack.com
Ryan Dunlap hosts Fictionsmith Family, a education show with 25 episodes published.
One of the reasons stories are as interesting as they are is because it opens a window to us to places we've never been before. Having new places described to you allows you to be teleported into the shoes of the charact
As you write your story, you may eventually hit points where things feel like they've stopped being interesting. You may have the major events figured out by using your outline so you know how to get from Point A to B to
When I set out to create the Summer Writing Project, I wanted to create something that parents and kids could join together and tell a story. I had no clue how many people would actively keep up with these episodes and h
I want to offer a quick reminder as we’re moving forward: This is the First Draft. We are in a magical time when it comes to telling a story. This is a time that belongs to you. Before this, the story existed only in you
One of the things that kicked all of this off and made it possible to do Fictionsmith Family was because of a noticing of a small detail that I had missed after passing it by dozens upon dozens of times. My oldest daught
Did you come up with your tense, perspective, and first or third person? I did find it a little funny that all of this is written and recorded in second person since I'm addressing you. Or y'all, which I feel qualified t
Welcome to Act Two, the writing phase! We've spent a month and a half getting on the same page and brainstorming ideas to come up with the story that only the two of you can tell together. You might have pictures of awes
We have reached the end of the planning phase of your story! I know this has been a lot of information, but I sincerely hope that it has helped get your imaginations going and that you understand what goes into story str
It’s showdown time! We've come out of the lowest point of the story as our hero has reached a moment of failure and introspection and learned something about themselves and why they are doing what they're doing...and why
It's time to rise like a Phoenix! Or at least shake off the broken pieces from the crash our character just went through. Hopefully at this point our hero has discovered their motivation for picking themself back up, whe
I think we might need a break from the heaviness of hitting the low point in the story. We talked about how to get our character to a low point by having failure hit them and taking away the things they've been relying o
Were you mean to your hero? Was it hard putting them through a tough time? We spend so much effort to create these characters (and often we put parts of ourselves into them) so it can be especially difficult to see them
Let's face it. This is not an easy section of the story to plot out and write. We've created these characters, given them hopes and dreams and a quest...and now we have to make their lives more difficult. As much as it p
After today, we have hit the halfway point of our outlining proces! Which means... we're at the Midpoint of the story. We've just visited a new location or three and met at least one new B-story character. The story shou
Now that we are out of Act One and have a mission in mind of what our hero needs to accomplish…what now? We leave the world of the familiar. Let's see what that looks like. We will set out to get where we know we need to
When the world is shaken up, what will your main character do? Hopefully you've gone through some fun options about what your inciting incident will be, so the next question is...are they going to feel ready? They probab
A lot of stories start off just trying to get the reader or viewer comfortable with the world they've entered into by using the main character as the eyes and ears (and nose and tongue and, you get the point) to experien
We have our starting line, hopefully we have at least a name and general idea of our main character and how they start off the story... now, let's make them likable! As I've said before, there is a fantastic screenwritin
We’ve made it out of the prologue, and here we are in Act One, Chapter One, Page One. It's okay to be nervous or excited, and it's also okay to make mistakes and realize you have to change things later. A lot of times wh
I can't believe we're already at the end of the prologue! Two weeks in, and I'm proud of you both for sticking with this. I know it's a lot of time to invest in a project, but it's going to be worth it. I hope the ideas
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