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Tell The Damn Story
by Alex Simmons & Chris RyanThis is where we interview and discuss the challenges and successes of writing books, comics, films, and other creative arts and pop culture topics.
Copyright: Alex Simmons & Chris Ryan
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Tell The Damn Story - Encore Episode # 214: An Interview With Batman Exec Prod. Michael Uslan
55m · PublishedTHE BATMAN film has arrived. THE DETECTIVE is Back!
Following a long line of live and animated successes, the newest Batman movie landed on March 4, 2022.
So Chris and Alex decided this would be a good time to repeat their interview with the Executive Producer, Michael Uslan. If you didn't hear it before, here's episode #214 of Tell The Damn Story.
Sit back and hear how Michael bought the film rights decades ago, and then faced multiple rejections for years. How did he keep going?
How he turn a book about his childhood love for the character into a forth coming Broadway play?
Alex and Chris explore those question and more with the man, and The Boy Who Loved Batman.
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TELL THE DAMN STORY, #221: "How Writers Can Do Public Appearances"
1h 1m · PublishedAlex and Chris open this episode by saluting the power of legends especially in times of war. This week Russia invaded Ukraine and two legends stepped forward, the Ghost of Kiev and the Ukraine Reaper, to give Ukrainians hope when they are in dire need.
The rest of our episode is focused on how to do public appearances as a writer.
We use Chris's recent appearance on the Galactic Terrors horror reading series on YouTube, and both Alex's recent interview for goldenglobes.com and his featured panel at ReggieCon where in PhD's discussed his work.
Then we gave several rules of thumb for how to prepare and perform to your best abilities in public as a writer.
(Link to Galactic Terrors: https://youtu.be/ba_gmxuqciU )
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Tell The Damn Story 220: What Is The Nature of A Hero In Today's Fiction?
49m · PublishedTELL THE DAMN STORY Episode #219 - What Does Banning Books Really Mean to Creatives?
51m · PublishedThis week, Alex and Chris tackle a subject that is unfortunately in the news once again.
As the banning of books again draws attention to people's fears and privilege in this country, what does it mean to the creative community? And what can we do about it? And how can it inspire our writing?
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Tell The Damn Story #218: How Can Writers Do Public Readings Right?
58m · PublishedIn this episode, Alex and Chris discuss the best methods for writers to do readings of their work, for themselves or an audience. And they start with Chris' upcoming public reading on Galactic Terrors (YouTube 1/13 at 8 PM). They also review best practices on giving a public reading either live or remotely.
Not to mention explaining how writers can benefit from reading their works out loud to themselves.
Emerging writers and, all writers for that matter, can benefit from these tips and insights.
Plus click on this link and get a list of their Top 10 Tips For Writers Doing Readings.
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SIDNEY POITIER (1928-2022) Blackboard Jungle The Defiant Ones A Raisin In The Sun Lillies of the Fields Duel At Diablo To Sir With Love In The Heat of the Night Guess Who's Coming To Dinner Plus so many more. And a gentleman to the end.
Thank you, Sir. R.I.P.
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Tell The Damn Story 217: What Was WRITE In 2021?
44m · PublishedThere Be Heroes Here?
2021 brought with it wounds and wins, new challenges, heroes and villains, and questions about how to handle it all.
In this Chris and Alex review the creative path through all of this.
From their real life and death hurdles, to favorite costume clad inspirations. And finally they ask -- Has what we've all been through made it hard for us to value human over superhuman?
What do you think?
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Tell The Damn Story #216: What Happens When You Take On Tough Topics In A Pop Culture
1h 0m · PublishedYoung writers Caseen Gaines and Omar Holman are back!!!
Once again Chris and Alex are following these talented young authors on their writing and publishing journey. Caseen talks about the making, publishing and promoting of his new book FOOTNOTES.
And Omar shares his same experiences with, BLACK NERD PROBLEMS, co-written by him and Williams Evans.
Both books have received good reviews and recognition. But writing about black representation in media, as well as being released during a pandemic, came with numerous challenges, too.
So tune in and find out what, where, why and how they dealt with all of that, plus what lies ahead.
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Tell The Damn Story #215: Creating Good Dialog, How To Talk The Talk.
33m · PublishedEver wonder why your character scenes fall flat, even though you've nailed down their NAME, AGE, and maybe a few basic RELATIONSHIPS?
It could be the quality of the Dialog.
Knowing what your characters say and how they say it is crucial. And not only to advance the plot. Authentic engaging dialog helps establish the depth of the character, the tone and mood of your story.
So listen as co. hosts and writers Alex and Chris discuss how they, and other pros, create genuine dialog for their characters, no matter age or era.
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Tell The Damn Story 214: How The Boy Who Loved Batman Came To Own Him
55m · PublishedHow do you go from average college student to owning film rights to one of the most iconic multi-media fictional characters?
How do you strive for success when year after year, after year, your passion project is rejected?
How do you go from writing a book about a beloved chapter in your life, to seeing that life and book portrayed on a Broadway stage?
Alex and Chris explore those question when they interview executive producer Michael Uslan, the man who owns the film right to BATMAN. Also the author of the semi-autobiography book, The Boy Who Loved Batman (soon to open on Broadway).
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TELL THE DAMN STORY 213: What Creatives Should Do This Time of Year.
42m · Published"I Love Assessing and Goal Setting This Time of Year!"
Why? And what good does it do?
This week, Alex and Chris discuss how creatives should review what they've accomplished this year and use that to set goals for the coming year. So many of us get to the end of a year and say, "I didn't get anything done!"
However, if you go back month by month and review what you actually have created, very often you will be surprised by how much you've accomplished.
Alex and Chris offer some ways (large and small) to see that objectively, to assess what work you did do objectively, and to use both to set your goals for 2022.
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Tell The Damn Story has 242 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 191:02:57. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 12th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 10th, 2024 00:17.
