The promise of knowledge management for the widely curious brain. Paper books and index cards and card catalogs and the art of tracking and linking your ideas. The act of writing is fundamental to thinking. Upended routines as in-person school begins in a small, irregular way. Speaking of nonlinear, how linear does plot need to be? Is chronology a friend to casualty? Is it necessary? The ways the backstory can circle back but acquire new meanings or trigger new understanding. Bringing causality and chronology into play. The consciousness of development matters, but the consciousness creating the story can be the reader’s. Alternate reasons to chronology for, what happens next? Memoir and the disconnect between character and events, which should join inform each other in service to story. The low-point, for example, will come from the character. Looking for the story scenes in life, as there is no shortage of redemption and failure in life. Geometry and patterns.

Notion, the app

Roam

Director position for our school

Mortimer J. Adler How to Read a Book

Ericsson and Pool Peek: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (10,000 hours)

Brown et al, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Sonke Ahrens How to Take Smart Notes

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Devi S. Laskar The Atlas of Reds and Blues

Rabid Alameddine I, the Divine

Captain Marvel film

Groundhog Day film

Palm Springs film

John Truby The Anatomy of Story

Sherlock t.v. show 

Sophie Hannah The Next to Die

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Story Makers is a podcast that features in-depth conversations with accomplished writers, filmmakers and industry experts about story craft, technique, habit and survival–everything you need to know to stay inspired, connect to your creativity, find others’ wonderful stories and your own success.

The hosts:

Elizabeth Stark is a published, agented novelist and distributed filmmaker who teaches and mentors writers at BookWritingWorld.com.

Angie Powers is a distributed filmmaker and published short story writer with an MFA in creative writing and a certificate in screenwriting from UCLA who teaches story structure at BookWritingWorld.com.