Josiah DeGraaf

@audrey-caylin That’s awesome! Glad to hear that the lesson helped you so much!

One thing you could do with your story’s message is to expand it by offering a reason for hope (e.g. “There’s always a reason to hope because _______________”). It somewhat depends on what type of story you’re trying to write, as a reason isn’t strictly necessary,…[Read more]

@audrey-caylin Awesome! Glad to hear that the lesson sparked some creative juices! 😀 I haven’t read A Time to Die yet (it is so high on my reading list, but time keeps alluding me…), but that seems like a good analysis of the book. The message doesn’t seem too broad to me (though to be fair I haven’t read the book yet), but it could be a bit…[Read more]

@ethryndal Awesome; those are great goals to have! Explaining how all story aspects can tie into a story’s theme was one of the goals I had in making the course, so it should definitely help you learn how to do that.

@sleepwalkingmk You’re welcome! If we weren’t trying to constantly outdo ourselves, us Jedi masters may be out of a job pretty quickly. 😉

@dragon-snapper Great goal! Like Daeus said, we’ll definitely be answering that and unpacking how to approach a theme from several different angles by using the power of story.

@audrey-caylin That’s great! Writing about things you’ve experienced can create the most powerful themes in storytelling, so that’s a great place to start, and I’ll be talking some in the next video about that aspect of theme development.

@ethryndal Glad to have you on board. 😀 Essentially what we’ll be doing for the final version is going through the course and updating all the lessons with the polished videos. So you will have full access to the polished version once it’s completed.

@kate-flournoy Hmm… a vague poetical answer. We’ll see if we can deliver on your poetical desires. 😉

@audrey-caylin Awesome! Those sound like great goals to have. Definitely keep those in mind going through the course, and at the end I’ll be asking how much the course helped you to achieve those goals.

@gretald Haha, it is an important skill to know when you need to say no to something. 😉 Definitely understand!

@anna-brie Like Daeus said, as long as all viewers are part of the same family, we have no problem with them all using the same account.

@greta Haha, it is an important skill to know when you need to say no to something. 😉 Definitely understand!

@anna-brie Like Daeus said, as long as all viewers are part of the same family, we have no problem with them all using the same account.

@overcomer Awesome! Glad to hear that you’re excited and have previous course testing experience. 🙂 Looking forward to having you in the beta group.

@sarah-h Thanks! Glad to hear it sounded appealing, and definitely understand your present circumstances. 🙂

@audrey-caylin Great to have you aboard! Glad to hear that you’re so excited for it. 😀

@dragon-snapper Awesome! Looking forward to interacting with you more in the course. I’ll add you to the private forum.

@perfectfifths Absolutely! We love the work that we do so I’m glad to hear that it’s been such a help to you.

@anne-swiftblade Great to have you on board! There’s a document in the course page explaining how to request access, but since you posted here, I’ve gone ahead and given you access, so you should be seeing it now at the bottom of the page. 🙂

We’ll be continuing to add lessons to the beta course until we have the whole course finished! Right…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy Yes. It’s a self-paced video course, so you can definitely watch it at your own pace, whether that’s doing a couple a week or binge-watching a bunch of sessions at once. 😉

Feedback-wise, we’ve set up a bunch of short four-question surveys you can fill out after watching each lesson so you don’t need to give feedback on the whole…[Read more]