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Stories Are Soul Food

Writing Your Story with Self-Control | (Ep. 199)

Stories Are Soul Food

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8787 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Nate and Brian sit down to talk about the importance of self-control in writing your story. Plus, brand new pitch reviews featuring a ewe with a unique circumstance.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everything you write goes into the wet concrete of history and sets for all time with no do-overs and no edits.

0:07.6

Don't think that I have to turn into a saint.

0:09.9

I don't have to be St. Stephen in the next minute.

0:13.3

But actually just continue to grind and improve and apologize and write that dialogue.

0:18.5

Every time you've written bad dialogue, write the dialogue of apology and forgiveness.

0:22.2

What you want to be is you want to be

0:24.0

good weather for people around you.

0:26.1

There will be more difficult scenes.

0:28.1

There will be life and death scenes.

0:29.9

There will be really difficult ones.

0:32.3

And you will have built the muscles for those scenes or not.

0:35.5

Tom's nose draws him back to a more immediate horror.

0:39.8

A. U with a...

0:41.4

Gross.

0:44.5

Impossible.

0:45.8

Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell.

0:49.7

Fire burning to my knees to my knees.

0:52.2

I fell.

0:52.9

Made a ghost of a king on a row. Welcome to Sass. We've already started enjoying this particular pitch. Welcome, welcome. It's Sass. Yeah. This segment of course. We're still here. We're still going. We haven't quit yet. The segment, Make Me Famous. We'll add more segments as well. Which Brian named. Not me, which is funny because we're not making people sign their pitches.

1:14.1

So we're not really making people famous.

1:16.2

Ooh, they feel the fame.

1:17.4

I think as they do.

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