Audio, Storytelling, and Plan B

Blog Post #10

“How I Work: Writing An Audio Script” by Mari gave great advice for writing a podcast.  I definitely agree when Mari highlighted that, “the first draft is always the one that takes up the most time.”  This is so true.  The first draft is where you have to get your ideas out on paper.  It is the beginning of your argument.  Every time you edit it you usually are staying within the same topic of that first draft.    Mari also makes good points in “Putting It All Together”.  He talks about how you need to read your paper out loud to hear how it sounds.  Your paper will change because of this to keep your reader’s attention and make it easy for them to follow.

Storytelling is fairly new to me.  Watching to Ira Glass talk about Storytelling was very helpful because he has had so much experience and he knows how to story tell effectively.  I liked how he talked about how storytelling is not like writing in high school, there is no topic sentence with evidence to support it.  You use “anecdotes”, which is a sequence of actions.

I also listened to “This  American Life”, also narrated by Ira Glass.  He talks about Plan B discussing how “most of us start off our lives with some Plan A which we abandon…switching to a Plan B, which becomes our life.”  In his different plans he discusses how people had to turn to Plan B.  In Act Three, Glass is talking with Barry Keenan because of his Plan B.  Keenan had achieved a lot of Plan A by age 22.  He was making a lot of money. but then he started drinking and became addicted to strong painkillers.  He went broke when he was 23, and  he then came up with Plan B, kidnapping  Frank Sinatra Jr., because he needed money. Glass explains the story in a well manner.  It is funny because towards the end of this Act, Frank Sinatra’s song  ” All of Me” is playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7KQ4vkiNUk&feature=related

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~ by brturner on November 12, 2009.