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Out on the Wire is the show about making stories, step by step. Join cartoonist Jessica Abel as she breaks down the principles of storytelling and puts you on the path to crafting your own s...

Out on the Wire is the show about making stories, step by step. Join cartoonist Jessica Abel as she breaks down the principles of storytelli...

In Episode 8: Your Baby's Ugly we talk a lot about how we edited Episode 7: Dark Forest into into its final form with the help of Jess Jiang...

It’s one thing to finish a story, it’s another to make stories your career. In our final episode of season one of Out on the Wire we talk to...

Dan Waldschmidt and Matthew Williamson just produced the pilot episode of a podcast called "Ordinary Heroes," but they know they need a new...

Our stories are our babies, but not all babies are cute. This week, we figure out just how far we’ve still got to go when we take a finished...

Céline Keller is making an autobiographical audio story about how she turned her life upside-down in order to raise two wild baby boars on h...

The Dark Forest is where we go when we're deep in the writing process and lose our way. Overwhelming feelings of self-doubt, confusion, and...

This week, Matt and Ben and Jessica critiquing scenes written by members of the Out on the Wire working group. An ethnographic memoir about...

It’s time to get some ink on that page. We’re in the lab, testing our story hypotheses in the crucible of the writing process. We put things...

This is our 5th workshop episode, where we discuss work posted the Out on the Wire working group. This week, interviewing—we talk about spac...

Don’t be lucky. Be good. Manufacture your own luck with the right kind of preparation for an interview. We hear from Zoe Chace, Robert Smith...

Young Ira Glass learns a lesson about how to make his own luck in this story that appears in Out on the Wire (the book), but didn’t fit in e...

In this week’s workshop, we’re critiquing work from the Episode 4: Bare Bones challenge: stories of a modern cinderella, a veteran seeking j...

This episode is a flight check: We’re making sure the underpinnings of our stories are tight and structured by utilising the narrative arc,...

In our third workshop episode we critique a few of the character profiles posted in the Out on the Wire Working group. This week: stories ab...

Today we dive deep into character, characters that let us walk in the shoes of someone else. But how can we create characters that feel genu...

In our second workshop episode we're talking about some of the focus sentences and XY story formulae posted in the Out on the Wire working g...

How can we know if an idea is a good one? This time on Out on the Wire, we investigate how to refine story ideas using the focus sentence an...

In our first workshop episode, we take a crack at some of the great ideas popping up on the Out on the Wire Working Group. Join Jessica, Ben...

Out on the Wire is the show about making stories, step by step. Join cartoonist Jessica Abel as she breaks down the principles of storytelli...