Join your hosts Claire and Avery, a couple of professional editors and language geeks, as they explore the world of human communication looking for valuable, perspective-altering insights!
From Language and Grammar, to Art and Emotion, each series presents a long-form discussion of a core aspect of human communication.
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VividWord
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arts · business · education · fiction · history · religion & spirituality · science · society & culture · tv & film
In this episode, we start with a broad conversation about story and art that narrows all the way down to why dialogue is so useful in fiction storytelling, and how our own perspectives don’t hinder character development, but actually enhance them.
30 Apr 2021
Dialogue (Part 3) - We All Remember that Conversation Differently
In this episode, we explore how dialogue takes shape and varies in nonfiction writing through journalism, personal essay, and memoir. The question we return to again and again is, what does truth telling look like when we write down the words of other, real-life people?
This question leads us to a conversation about honesty in writing, and how two things can be true at the same time.
Helpful Terms and Links
Dialogue (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dialogue)- Finding ___* through talking (*logic, meaning, ideas etc.)
Essay- (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/essay) “an attempt”
Memoir- (the author’s personal retelling of a crucial event or life-lesson learned) versus autobiography (a retelling of the author’s life events, in general).
Art and Stories mentioned
Examples of personal essays;
Consider the Lobster (http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf), David Foster Wallace
Essays (https://www.amazon.com/Michel-Montaigne-Complete-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140446044), Michel de Montaigne
Small Victories, (https://www.amazon.com/Small-Victories-Spotting-Improbable-Moments/dp/1594486298) Anne Lamott
Many works by C.S. Lewis
Truth-telling in story
The Lifespan of a Fact (https://www.amazon.com/Lifespan-Fact-John-DAgata/dp/0393340732), John D’Agata and Jim Fingal
The Big Short (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363/), directed by Adam McKay
23 Apr 2021
Dialogue (Part 2) - Deep Conversations & Compassion
In this episode, we explore how to steward dialogue well in important, deep conversations.
We laid out the different settings these conversations can happen in, which led to a discussion about the good, bad, and ugly sides of political dialogue and social media arguments, and how to cope when we have to have these hard conversations in less-than-ideal circumstance.
Helpful Terms and Links
Dialogue - Finding ___* through talking (*logic, meaning, ideas etc.)
Rhetoric - The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
Books Mentioned
Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre.
26 Mar 2021
Dialogue (Part 1) - Giving Birth to an Idea
In this first episode, we set the stage for our series about dialogue by exploring how to steward dialogue well in all spheres of communication. We begin by asking, "what's universal about communication?"
This question leads us to a conversation about human connection, community building, and how we can approach the words we hear and say with a grace-filled perspective.
Helpful Terms and Links
Dialogue (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dialogue)- Finding ___* through talking (*logic, meaning, ideas etc.)
Conversation (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conversation)- The idea of turning something (logic, ideas) around to examine it with someone else.
Discussion (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discussion)- To shake something apart.
Maieutics (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maieutic)- A word for the Socratic method of teaching by asking questions. Related to midwifery; the socratic process of helping someone birth an idea.
Communication (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communication); The process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior.
Books mentioned
Conversation is a communal act! Claire learned a lot about this from the book Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre.
Jayber Crow, by Wendell Berry
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