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Out on the Wire

By: Jessica Abel
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  • Out on the Wire is the show about making stories, step by step. Join cartoonist Jessica Abel as she breaks down the principles of storytelling and puts you on the path to crafting your own story—in prose, comics, audio, video—in any narrative art form, fiction or nonfiction. Featuring radio and podcasting star producers from This American Life, Radiolab, Planet Money, Snap Judgment, and many more. Listen, learn, and collaborate with us to make something great.
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Episodes
  • The Episode 7: Dark Forest archive: The Edit with Robert Smith and Jess Jiang
    Jan 19 2022
    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Rough mix: Episode 7: Dark Forest
    Jun 17 2020

    In Episode 8: Your Baby's Ugly we talk a lot about how we edited Episode 7: Dark Forest into into its final form with the help of Jess Jiang and Robert Smith of Planet Money. We wanted to share that process, so here's our original mix of episode 7, which we sent to Jess and Robert, their edit meeting with us, and the final version of episode 7. Enjoy!


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    31 mins
  • Out on the Wire Episode 9: Make It Work
    Jan 20 2016

    It’s one thing to finish a story, it’s another to make stories your career. In our final episode of season one of Out on the Wire we talk to three creative professionals, Jakob Lewis of the podcast Neighbors, Dave Kellett of the comics Sheldon and Drive and the documentary Stripped, and Kelly Sue DeConnick, writer of the comics Bitch Planet and Pretty Deadly, about how they create their work, put food on the table, and make a life in the constantly shifting creative landscape.


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    43 mins

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great example of long form story telling

Jessica really made and interesting and helpful podcast. There is a lot of value here for free. Thanks so much for going out on the wire for creatives!

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