Tell The Damn Story

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...

Sunday, December 26, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 217: What Was WRITE In 2021?

There Be Heroes Here? 2021 brought with it wounds and wins, new challenges, heroes and villains, and questions about how to handle it all. In this Chr...

Sunday, December 12, 2021 Tell The Damn Story #216: What Happens When You Take On Tough Topics In A Pop Culture

Young writers Caseen Gaines and Omar Holman are back!!! Once again Chris and Alex are following these talented young authors on their writing and pu...

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, November 7, 2021 TELL THE DAMN STORY 213: What Creatives Should Do This Time of Year.

"I Love Assessing and Goal Setting This Time of Year!" Why? And what good does it do? This week, Alex and Chris discuss how creatives should review w...

Sunday, October 24, 2021 TELL THE DAMN STORY 212: "To Halloween and Beyond!"

This week Alex and Chris celebrate horror, punk, sci-fi, and pulp with Horror Writers Association -NY co-coordinators James Chambers and Carol Gyzande...

Sunday, October 17, 2021 TELL THE DAMN STORY 211: Facing The Monsters In the Dark of the Mind

For writers what's the greatest monster in the closet? This week Alex and Chris go in to find out when they talk about how lack of confidence can free...

Sunday, October 3, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 210: Spies, Sorcerers, Six-guns and Monsters. An Interview With Teel J. Glenn

This episode brings you an interview with Teel J. Glenn, actor, stuntman, weapons master, actor, fight choreographer, director, producer, and, most of...

Sunday, September 26, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 209: Putting Story in Art, An Interview with Award Winning Artist, Julie Bell!

We're running a little longer than 30 minutes today because in this episode Alex and Chris gets to interview the extremely talented artist, Julie Bell...

Sunday, September 12, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 208: How To Submit Your Stories For Publication

This week Alex and Chris gave a concise, detailed "how to" for writers who have short stories they believe are ready to send out, but are not sure whe...

Sunday, September 5, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 207: What's Coming This Fall?

Welcome to TELL THE DAMN STORY, Season 5 with veteran award winning authors Alex Simmons and Christopher Ryan. It's a whole new season for tell the ...

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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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