Till We Have Faces – Derailed Trains of Thought

Episode 76 – By The Beard of Zeus!

April 30, 2017 01:00:00 0 Comments

Before people got all smartypants and started talking about atoms and neurons and Newtonian physics, the great storytellers understood how the world worked–because gods, yo. And though mythology is still used as source material, there’s something unique

Episode 84 – Keep It Simple, Stupid?

January 30, 2018 01:06:06 0 Comments

It’s 2018, and we’re back with Episode 84 of Derailed Trains of Thought, your premiere podcast on storytelling! The facts: Story School, simple vs. complex plots; Our Take on Tales, our 2017 reads In other words: Your hosts, Timothy Deal and Nicholas Hayd

Episode 95 – Tempted at Story’s Altar

January 24, 2019 01:18:34 0 Comments

Story is good. We’ve said that before. But story can also take an out-sized and even, shall we say, idolatrous place in our media-soaked lives. Nick and Tim discuss the dangers of story for the creator and consuming in this episode’s Story School. Then it