All good things take time. Stories are no different. “Stock, sometimes called bone broth, is a savory cooking liquid that forms the basis of many dishes – particularly soups, stews, and sauces” - Wiki Your story is the stock of your dish. It’s the base you’ll use to assemble every story and it needs time and consistent attention before it’s ready to be incorporated into a project. A great looking video with an underdeveloped story is an example of a dish made with some flashy ingredients but lacks flavor. Stock starts as unincorporated ingredients - water, salt and onion for example. Time and heat bring the water to boil and break down the salt and onion until all the ingredients become 1. Through the simmering process, heat cooks off the excess water leaving only the broken down ingredients and their distilled flavors. Repeating this process over and over creates layered, bold, and deep flavors that cannot be obtained through faster or easier techniques. The time and consistent attention (heat) cannot be replaced or sped through if you want to make a story or dish that full with flavor and meaning. Take your time simmering your ideas. Your story has been simmering in your mind long before you read this post. You’ve been adding ingredients, boiling down the excess, tasting and trying to get it just right. Stock is often a prep step for other dishes, the same way creating your story is necessary before you can make it. At some point you have to take the stock you have and move to the next step in the recipe, a dish can’t be made of pure stock. If you feel like your story has simmered long enough, taste it. Is the flavor making your mouth and brain burst with joy? How will you use this base to assemble a dish that will make your audience feel the same way? If you can see the path forward, then move on to the next step and write it down, make that video, get the pottery wheel out, tell your story! However if the flavor isn’t right yet, if you haven’t gotten the puzzle pieces of ingredients to fit together into a path forward - then it’s not ready to serve. And it’s good you know that. Nobody wants to eat food that hasn’t been cooked through.

Hello and Welcome to Your Story Studios Wherever you are in your storytelling journey, congratulations you just took an huge step! 👏 - Getting into a community of likeminded creators can really boost your output and inspiration. Briefly about me: I started making films in school, I went to film school, I always dreamed about working on set. I've been working on sets and behind the scenes in Los Angeles for the past 10 years. Ive seen huge sets, tiny sets, rag tag sets and overblown sets. Ive seen safe and unsafe and late nights and early mornings. And through it all I learned techniques from experiences craftspeople on my way to racking up more than 1000 days on set, at minimum that 12,000 hours studying and problem solving in real time environments. AND now i want to share that knowledge with YOU! Because to be honest, my journey has been a slow process with tons of pain and setback. I made this group so you don’t have to go through that same SLOW process as me. This group is all about supporting each other, learning from REAL experience, and taking actionable steps towards creating your own and producing your own story studio, using the professional techniques I've learned along the way. Measure twice, cut once. So Here’s What to Do Next: Step 1. Introduce Yourself (comments below): "Hey, I'm ____ I want to tell stories about ____ and my favorite story right now is ____." Spread inspiration by posting links and stories in the “what inspires you” tab If you have finished a draft and want some, feedback - post it in the "Post Your Draft” Tab and people will comment on it. If you’ve finished a project and want to celebrate delivering the project, post in the “Celebrate Completion” tab We will be building the classroom as we go. In the meantime use the community to learn from each others work, exchange ideas, be a fan and get feedback on your own work. We’re to see all the world changing stories that will come out of this group!