128: U and Non‑U – Using Dan Harmon’s Story Circle to Jump-Start Plotting
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128: U and Non‑U – Using Dan Harmon’s Story Circle to Jump-Start Plotting
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About this listen
We fell straight into the story‑structure void this week—Dan Harmon’s Story Circle (of Community fame, as Murph will be quick to tell you; only casuals know him from Rick and Morty), Joseph Campbell, sitcom plotting, and the eternal “oh god, my draft needs an actual plot” realization. We shared our outlining disasters, surprise rewrites, and that moment when you finally admit the story isn’t done yet.
Afterward, we read stories inspired by U and Non‑U, a very British way of deciding whether you’re classy or common based on whether you say “bike” or “cycle.”
Stories start around 19:05. Happy writing everyone!
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Episodes of Radio FreeWrite are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. All Stories remain the property of their respective authors.