Tell The Damn Story

Sunday, February 13, 2022 Tell The Damn Story 220: What Is The Nature of A Hero In Today's Fiction?

Today, as we prepare to see who are the heroes of this year's Super Bowl, Alex and Chris explore who our heroes are in 2022. Do the older heroes sti...

Sunday, January 9, 2022 Tell The Damn Story #218: How Can Writers Do Public Readings Right?

In 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 wit...

Monday, December 6, 2021 Tell The Damn Story #215: Creating Good Dialog, How To Talk The Talk.

Ever 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 th...

Sunday, November 21, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 214: How The Boy Who Loved Batman Came To Own Him

How 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 suc...

Sunday, August 15, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 204 / SUMMER SHORTS 3: What To Wonder About Wanda Vision.

Co-Hosts Chris Ryan & Alex Simmons are on summer hiatus. So in this flashback episode we're going to revisit some Marvel magic. Chris and Alex discuss...

Sunday, August 8, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 203 / SUMMER SHORTS 2: How To Write Almost Everything. Interview w JOE R. LANSDALE

He's the author of over 45 crime, sci-fi, western and suspense novels, novellas and comics! With a tv show based on one of his series. How does he do...

Sunday, August 1, 2021 Tell The Damn Story #202: Summer Flashback 1 - How Do You Learn To Create?

Chris and me are on hiatus so this is the first of their Summer Flashbacks visits of earlier episodes. This week, Chris and Alex discuss some of the...

Sunday, July 18, 2021 TELL THE DAMN STORY 200: Celebrating Over 200 Episode of Writing Tips, Techniques, & Tales

"Previously On..." In this momentous episode, Alex and Chris celebrate the "free writing school" aspects of TTDS. For over 6 years their conversations...

Sunday, July 4, 2021 TELL THE DAMN STORY 198: "Finish The Damn Story!"

This week Alex and Chris team up with writer/publishers Jim Beard and John C. Bruening of Flinch Books. The four creatives get together for a fantasti...

Sunday, June 6, 2021 TELL THE DAMN STORY 194: "A Tale of Two Alexes," Journalist to Comics, to Mystery Writer ... And More

He made it from Miami to New York. From local journalist to VP of Publishing. And he's a family man. In this episode Chris is surrounded by Alexes whe...

Sunday, May 30, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 193: The Writer's Life of Author/Journalist Jesse J. Holland

He started out as a child on a farm in Mississippi, and eventually became one of the few Washington DC journalist with clearance to cover all three ma...

Sunday, March 28, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 184: Illness, Do You Work Through it or Just Lay Down And ...?

With Alex in the hospital, and with Chris recovering from a royal butt-kicking courtesy of his second Moderna vaccination, we discuss: how honesty is ...

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dubg406 on 11/4/2019

This is a podcast that will inspire your creativity. Five stars all the way ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!

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lovesit39 on 7/7/2019

Excellent conversation with Jerry Craft. Thank you!

Eire1969 on 12/25/2018

I throughly enjoy the teasing yet respectable repartee between these two writers. They both “tell stories” to get their points across (of course) which made their discussions so engaging. I have lots ...

Gordidon on 7/2/2018

Awesome stuff and very informative!!! 👌👌

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