Season 1
Episodes
46. Make Your Story Good Before Hollywood with a Formula that Works: Heart, Smarts & Sparkle
Ep. 46 - Make Your Story Good Before Hollywood with Heart, Smarts & SparkleEPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode, Zena gives additional criteria that you can use to evaluate the merits of your story ideas....
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45. Finding Your Story: How to Test Whether or Not Your Story Idea is Good
Ep. 45. Finding Your Story: How to Test Whether or Not Your Story Idea is GoodEPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode of The Storyteller’s Mission, Zena goes back to the basics and asks, “What is a Story?” Before you...
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44. Ritual & Tradition: The Gift of a New Year
EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In the last episode of the A-HA MOMENT Series (and the last episode of the entire year), Zena reflects back to a time when she was privileged to hear Tony Campolo speak at a Youth Conference....
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43. Understanding Justice and Suffering: Three Kinds of Suffering that Radically Impact Our Perceptions of God
In this special episode of The Storyteller's Mission, Zena Dell Lowe breaks down the twin concepts of Justice and Suffering. Justice is that need inside of us that demands that wrong doers pay for their deeds. This is...
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42. Five Empowering Phrases to Transform Your Professional Life
EPISODE DESCRIPTION: A-ha moment #2 = In this episode, Zena shares how she had a terrible time setting boundaries in business early in her career, so in order to prevent her life from being hijacked by others, she...
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41. How the Desire to Get into the "Inner Circle" Can Destroy You
EPISODE DESCRIPTION: As human beings, we all have an intense desire to become a member of some exclusive "inner circle," and to establish relationships in the business with professionals we think can help further...
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40. Common Mistakes that Writers Make: Missed Opportunities & Tangential Content
EPISODE DESCRIPTION: This episode presents two more major mistakes that Zena has been seeing lately in the work she's been reviewing for clients. These are:3. Not milking every moment for what it's worth. Every...
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39. Common Mistakes that Writers Make: Passive Objectives & Flawed Mythologies
EPISODE DESCRIPTION: On Thanksgiving 2020, one of the things we can be grateful for is knowledge that helps us to maximize our time and create the best first draft possible. To that end, Zena shares two major...
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38. Dialogue Tools: How Unexpected Dialogue Creates Intrigue for Your Audience
EPISODE DESCRIPTION: This episode presents my final three favorite tools in a series on how to write great dialogue in your novel, screenplay, or play. These advanced techniques can transform the quality of one's...
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37. Dialogue Tools: Here's How to Expose Backstory Through Dialogue
EPISODE DESCRIPTION: This episode continues to explore some of my favorite tricks and tools for writing great dialogue.1. Turn exposition into conflict or confrontation. This is how you can expose backstory and...
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36. Dialogue Tools: Three Tricks to Flesh Out Your Character and Bring Out Their Nuances
EPISODE DESCRIPTION:This week's episode explores three new tools that screenwriters and novelists can employ to enrich the dialogue exchanges of their characters. Tool #1: Give your characters something to pursue....
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35. Dialogue Tools: Understanding Human Psychology and the Three Major Roles People Play
EPISODE DESCRIPTION: This episode launches part 2 of the series on dialogue by presenting the first of ten fun TOOLS to help storytellers create great dialogue. TOOL #1: THE TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS This tool is...
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