25: [Untitled Episode]
In this episode, Rob asks his sister to talk about her super power: her ability to remember where she was on any eventful day of her life, not to mention what she was wearing—and for that matter, what anyone else was wearing. Not surprisingly, this is not a super power of Rob’s, but he’s curious about what it’s like to have a “pictographic memory.” Tricia contends that it is possible for anyone to remember the details of the earlier seasons and events of their lives, and tells how she advises new writers to develop that ability.
This opening topic raises two questions for Rob that he asks Tricia to discuss: (1) What role does the truth play in story telling? And, (2) Rob quotes Rob Bell on the importance of knowing the specific differences between news, journalism and entertainment, as all three serve very different purposes. In Rob’s words, “There are some stories being told very well out there that are not news; they are not journalism, they are not based in fact. They’re just ‘trying to keep you on this web site’ for as long as we can.’”
The second question Rob asks Tricia to discuss: “how do you approach grammar in your creative writing?” Tricia discusses that balance between appreciating the ‘rules’ of good grammar and punctuation, while not reading Facebook and other social media to be the grammar police!
And did you even know that the word “yet” is funnier than the word “again?”
Or that there is a paint color out there that is called, “Camel Spit?”
Rob closes with an experiment he has wanted to try: what if we invite listeners to title the episode? And so, this episode will be known as The Untitled Episode to see if maybe a listener out there will send us “a winner of a title!”