ADWIT: The Audio Drama Writers' Independent Toolkit - Ignite Your Storytelling Spark for 2024: How to Plan a Season or Story Arc, Plus Coming Attractions and The ADWIT Audience Survey

Ignite Your Storytelling Spark for 2024: How to Plan a Season or Story Arc, Plus Coming Attractions and The ADWIT Audience Survey

12/26/23 • 20 min

ADWIT: The Audio Drama Writers' Independent Toolkit

Getting ready to light a fire under your audio drama writing habits in 2024? Here's a method for planning your next season or story arc that breaks your season down into episodes, and episodes into moments, so you can make a story that matters, one storytelling beat at a time. We'll explore Dan Harmon's storytelling method in detail, and how Lindsay adapted it for her needs, making up a season and an episode. Plus, you'll learn about the ADWIT Audience Survey, and how you can shape the future of The Audio Drama Writers' Independent Toolkit. And, you can sample the coming attractions for our next episode.
WARNING: Spoilers for Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz.
Resources:

Produced, written and hosted by Lindsay Harris Friel.
Music and production assistance by Vincent Friel.
Additional sounds by https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld
Park Forest, Boxtel North Brabant, Netherlands

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Get the scoop on audio drama news, opportunities, creative resources and more with The Fiction Podcast Weekly newsletter. For more info, visit The Podcast Host's Fiction Podcast Weekly.

Want to get in touch? You can send us a text message with the link at the top, email us at [email protected], join our Discord server, or visit our website at adwit.org.

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Previous Episode

Audio Drama Podfest, 11th Hour Audio Challenge, Small Cast Recommendations and a Sound Writing Exercise

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Where have Sarah and Lindsay been? Get ready for a quick update from ADWIT. Sarah brings you a helpful and less unwieldy than usual podcast conference for Audio Drama creatives, on the 4th of November. Meanwhile, the 11th Hour Audio Challenge casts a long dark shadow over Lindsay. Get ready for stories to chill your bones on 30th October.
What can we do for you, as podcasters? What do you need from a podcast about how to make audio drama and fiction podcasts? Coming soon: The ADWIT Survey, with fabulous* prizes for a few randomly selected respondents. Or, if you can’t wait that long to tell us what you want from this podcast, write to us at [email protected].
Plus, a few listening recommendations for podcasts outside the “full cast” stereotype, and a writing exercise based on sound cues.
*for certain values of "fabulous."
Links to Resources and More info:
The Audio Drama Hub Podfest
Streaming tickets for The Audio Drama Hub Podfest.
The 11th Hour Audio Challenge and past episodes.
Hallway to Nowhere by Leslie Gideon
EVP Side B and EVP Side A by Owen McCuen (scroll down to 2022 episodes)
Magenta Presents Little Boxes (live from the London Podcast Festival) by Longcat Media
Sounds from Freesound.org:
SummerOpenFieldDusk by kvgarlic
Zipping A Huge Black Bag by Matrixxx_
Unlock by orangesheepdog
Xenorhinotherium Growl #3 by ShangASDFGuy123
Sunday Afternoon in Rejkjavik by spraguek

Want to get in touch? You can send us a text message with the link at the top, email us at [email protected], join our Discord server, or visit our website at adwit.org.

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Next Episode

Greetings from the year 2165.

Audio drama and fiction podcasts aid free thought. Therefore, they must be eliminated before they can help people understand each other in a more entertaining way.
The ADWIT Audience Survey is where you can nip this process in the bud. One randomly selected respondent will win a gift certificate to Libro.fm. All participants will receive a PDF explaining the story crafting method described in our December 25, 2023 episode.
TIME TRAVELERS: THIS IS YOUR MOMENT.

You can shape the future of The Audio Drama Writers’ Independent Toolkit. Take the ADWIT Audience Survey, so we know what writing strategies to help you with next. One randomly selected respondent will win a gift certificate to Libro.fm. All participants will receive a PDF explaining the story crafting method described in our December 25, 2023 episode.
Want to get in touch? Contact us at [email protected], or visit our website at adwit.org.
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ADWIT: The Audio Drama Writers' Independent Toolkit - Ignite Your Storytelling Spark for 2024: How to Plan a Season or Story Arc, Plus Coming Attractions and The ADWIT Audience Survey

Transcript

Speaker 100:00:06.908

Hi everybody , it's Lindsay and welcome to a final episode of AdWit for 2023 . As you all know , adwit is the podcast where we talk about how to create an audio drama , because I would like there to be more audio drama for me to listen to . More audio drama , more podcasts , more fun , more love , more everything , and I want to help you with strategies to make that happen . Bu