Tips for your podcast
First, ask yourself what you can reasonably accomplish in five to seven minutes. You can capture maybe one long scene or three or four scenes of about two or three minutes in length each. If you had to choose five to seven minutes from your own life or experiences to illustrate a moment of significance, what would you pick? Can you think of any moments in your life where change occurred, but didn’t end in violence or chaos? Tell the story of a moment of change. That change should come from the interaction among the characters and not from an external forces (car crash, avalanche, asteroid). The change can be small. Your listener wants to discover that in the telling of the story, something is slightly different at the end. Keep it simple. Do not try to cover too much ground. You don’t have time. Know what your characters want. Make it concrete. Start as close to the end as possible. Do not try to trick the listener but surprising us with a new piece of information a...