StoryOsophy is a podcast for writers. Adam Jones and Devin Halden dig into character, theme, conflict and structure, then show how working storytellers put them together.
INT. STORY ROOM – LATE NIGHT
EXT. BAYOU COURBÉ, LOUISIANA – DUSK
The hosts' new novel
A waitress diving in a Louisiana river finds a gold bar from a failed 1997 Minneapolis bank heist. Within three days, the quiet Cajun town of Bayou Courbé is overrun by treasure hunters, a retired FBI agent, and a Minnesota crime family.
Devin and Adam spent years on this podcast pulling stories apart. Driftwood is what they built with the pieces: an intricately plotted mystery-adventure about identity and reinvention, told in the present tense.
INT. RECORDING BOOTH – NIGHT
Season 2 ends where every finished script has to go next: out into the world. How do you compress 120 pages into one sentence someone will remember? Adam and Devin walk through…
You finished a draft. Celebrate, then get it ready for readers. Adam and Devin split the last stage into two passes. Polishing is reworking scenes and the rhythm of the piece…
A lo-fi episode recorded while both hosts were driving. With no notes, Adam and Devin catch up on what they've been working on during the pandemic, from the Story Blueprint app to…
You don't need to know your theme before you write. Adam and Devin both used to force stories around a theme chosen up front; now they let the first draft reveal it. In this…
How do you fix a scene that isn't working, or build one from scratch? Continuing the season's last stretch on refining your first draft, Adam and Devin zoom in from movements to…
INT. WRITERS' ROOM – DAY
Writer, director, actor
Adam started writing at three on a typewriter with no ribbon. He directed the award-winning feature Cross Eyed, has acted in more than thirty plays and twenty short films, and works as a freelance script doctor and story consultant.
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