Dads of the Kingdom Episode 00006 - Welcome Back Terry and John welcome fellow Dad, Nick Parlin to the show…welcome, Nick. After a long hiatus, we are back with some great conversations. Here are some teasers to for this show: 2 Truths and a Lie - Which of the three Disney "facts" is the made-up storyline? Listen in to find out Have you ever visite…

Dads of the Kingdom Episode 00005 - 2017 D23 Announcements for WDW Terry and John talk about the 2017 D23 announcements...excited about the new additions arriving at Walt Disney World over the next 1-5 years! "Minnie Van" Service Starts at Walt Disney Guardians of the Galaxy, Ratatouille Coming to Epcot Disney Skyliner Disney Vacation Club Announce…

Dads of the Kingdom Episode 00004 - Experiencing Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure Terry and John share their conversations about Disney with a little news around the World, a little nostalgia, and a little time with family. Enjoy. Main Topic: Experiencing Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure * Comparing Land to World * Size/flow…

Dads of the Kingdom Episode 00003 - Celebrating the Holidays at Disney Terry and John share their conversations with a little news around the World, a little nostalgia, and a little time with the family. Enjoy. Our main topic for the week is Holiday Celebrations and experiences at Disney. Main Topic: Celebrating the holidays at Disney with your fam…

Dads of the Kingdom Episode 00002 - WDW Expansions Terry and John share their conversations with a little news around the World, a little nostalgia, and a little time with the family. Enjoy. Check out some of the Disney wallpaper Terry and John Talk about on the show: https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/wallpapers/…

Dads of the Kingdom Episode 00001 - Starting Out Terry and John share their first show with conversations about why they started the podcast, where they will go with the show, and some news around the parks. Journey from Disney's Animal Kingdom to the Flower and Garden Festival. Enjoy.By Terry Staggs Jr. & John E Murray III

Dads of the Kingdom Episode 00000.5 - Starting the Feed Welcome to our introductory episode of Dads of the Kingdom!By Terry Staggs Jr. & John E Murray III

Are you writing about what you dream or do you dream of writing…decide and tell your story… Featured Quote: “All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.” William Faulkner Featured Poems: There is No Frigate Like a BookBy: Emily Dickinson There is no frigate like a bookT…

Poems from our forums and relationships found… Featured Quotes: “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” Leo Buscaglia “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust Featured Poem: One Word Is Too Often Profaned By: Percy Bysshe Shelley One word is too …

Choices for you and choices for your characters…End where you began but make it a good one… Feature Quote: “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” Frank Lloyd Wright Featured Poem:Traveling Through the DarkBy: William Stafford Traveling through the dark I found a deerdead on the edge of the …

More podcasts and thoughts to get your writing moving and your creativity flowing…John shares one last handful of his favorite audio inspirations… Featured Quotes: A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. By: Robert Frost A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. By: Robert Frost John shares some m…

Podcasts and thoughts to get your writing moving and your creativity flowing…John shares a handful of his favorite audio inspirations… Featured Quote: Belief, by definition is an assent to a proposition. It is any cognitive content that is held true. It is some expression or a vague idea in which some confidence is placed. Thus, it defines some sor…

Do you believe in your characters? OK, but do you have faith in your characters to live beyond the time you put them on paper? Is there a difference? Listen and engage in the writing prompts. Featured Quote: Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. Edith Hamilton Inspiration for this week’s conversation: Six Characters in Search of …

John releases some inner voices…what do you release in your writing… If you are an author in search of readers or have comments about our show, contact us: ramblingverser@storyinstitute.com 615-431-WRIT (9748) This week’s episode was brought to you by Enchanted Travel Tales (www.enchantedtraveltales.com), bringing travel, magic, and fun to your hol…

A look at a better story driven character and your connection as a writer… If you are an author in search of readers or have comments about our show, contact us: ramblingverser@storyinstitute.com 615-431-WRIT (9748) This week’s episode was brought to you by Enchanted Travel Tales (www.enchantedtraveltales.com), bringing travel, magic, and fun to yo…

Grab that paper and write…a newspaper that is… “If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play at it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.” ~ Bob Hope Headlines to help you with thoughts, ideas to a provide realistic writing prompts: “Run over on a Florida beach: can’t Americans walk anywhere at all?” “No Flat for Cats” “App Tells You Whether…

Connecting Your Storyline with Your Storyline… If you are an author in search of readers or have comments about our show, contact us: ramblingverser@storyinstitute.com 615-431-WRIT (9748) Featured Quotes: “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of c…

Reflect on your Knowledge and Imagine a new world…oh yeah, and write about it… Featured Quote: “I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.” “Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” ~Immanuel Kant Featured Poem: Ode on a Grecian Urn ~ John KeatsBy Story Institute - John E. Murray, III

Childhood connections or Nada…Your path defined by you, the poet, writer, creator… Featured Quote: “I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer…

Style and Story – Has the muse moved…Or, is man really a friend of the vultures… Featured Quote: “Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of “truth” and the language of “creation.” (from Littérature, …

Time Back from Beyond…New focus and new writing prompts… Quote of the week: “I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.” ~ Samuel Beckett Short Story Focus and Topic: “The Open Boat” ~ Stephen Crane Read the entire short story here: Stephen Crane…

You’ve heard this before…or, maybe we forgot to include the foreshadowing… In today’s episode, we talk with Chad Corrie (www.chadcorrie.com) about foreshadowing and tying up your story. What information did you feed your readers? Did you give them enough information to keep reading? Does the ending make sense to the characters, writers, and readers…

Get motivated and create action within your stories… In today’s episode, we talk with Chad Corrie (www.chadcorrie.com) about motive and influencing action within a story. Why do characters behave the way they do? Where do the characters look to motivation? Well, if you are a writer, these items originate and grow from you.…

Add a conflict or don’t…being conflicted within your story… In today’s episode, we talk with Chad Corrie (www.chadcorrie.com) about conflict in a story. Stories need conflict of some sort to grow, progress, and maintain interest. What is the conflict within your story? How have you let it grow? Listen in as we discuss the basics and some examples o…

Writing Down the Fairy Tales…If you thought living a fairytale was tough to come by…try writing them…it is fun, but a very different world indeed… Quotes of the Week: “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. When I examine myself and my methods of thoug…

Find another notebook…Writing from within instead of with…Conversations about writing…John E Murray III Quote by Dale Carnegie: “Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” This week, John ramblings on…

Adding character to your characters…Conversations about writing…Chad Corrie & John E Murray III Quote by Jim Henson: “Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” This week, we talk about characters, how they start, and how they grow into the breath of their stories…By Story Institute - John E. Murray, III

Plot your plot…Conversations about writing…Chad Corrie & John E Murray III Quote by Walt Disney: ““Ideas come from curiosity. When I settle one idea, my confidence takes command; and nothing can shake it, and I am constant to it until it comes a reality. Then I drop it abruptly, and rarely mention it again.” Poem from John E. Murray, III: Up, Up, a…

Visit with us this week as we talk with Chad Corrie (www.chadcorrie.com) about setting and creating a solid foundation on which to build your story… Setting up what follows…Conversations about writing…Chad Corrie & John E Murray III Quote by Margaret AtwoodBy Story Institute - John E. Murray, III

Cafe Conversations with Humble Fiction Cafe Writing Group… Quote by H.G. Wells Poem from Timothy Russell – Collapse of Summer Guest Conversation with the Humble Fiction Cafe writing Group: Here is a little about the group (http://www.humblefictioncafe.blogspot.com/): “Humble Writers. No, it’s not an oxymoron. We’re a group of aspiring and establish…

This week’s show features other entries to our poetry contest and some general thoughts and prompts for writing…sit back, relax, and enjoy the show… Quote – Isaac Asimov – “You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on anot…

Story Institute, your online and in-print source for imagining, enhancing, and growing stories, is proud to announce the winners of its Spring, 2009 United States poetry contest. All first and second place winners will be featured in upcoming Story Institute RamblingVerser podcasts and newsletters. Along with the winning poems, entries from selecte…

Imagine New Worlds and Write with Chad Corrie… Did you find it a bit crazy that we our 13th episode is being aired on the 13th of April…we do…but, hey, there are crazier things…so, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show… Quote by Samuel Johnson Poem from Amy Lowell – Azure And Gold Guest Conversation with Chad Corrie…

Write and Publish Right with Robin Sullivan… Quote by HG Wells Poem from Mark Twain – Genuis Guest Conversation with Robin Sullivan Here is a little about Robin (http://www.write2publish.blogspot.com/): “I run a writer’s group in the Washington DC area with 340+ authors. Through it I do monthly free lectures on topics such as publishing, book promo…

Fantastic Fiction with Michael J Sullivan… Quote by Abraham Lincoln Poem from Alfred Lloyd Tennyson – Ask Me No More Guest Conversation with Michael J Sullivan Here is a little about Michael (http://www.michaelsullivan-author.com/): “Born in Detroit Michigan, Michael J. Sullivan has lived in Vermont, North Carolina and Virginia. He worked as a comm…

Fouling through to make and change your Commitments…with Bob McDonald… Quote by William James Poem from Samuel Taylor Coleridge Guest Conversation with Bob McDonald Here is a little about Bob (http://www.flagrantfoul.com): “Bob is a two-time graduate of Cleveland State University, attaining a Bachelor of Arts in History in 2002 and a Master of Educ…

Space…a Writing Frontier with Bart Leahy… Quote by B.F. Skinner Poem from William Blake – Sons of Los Guest Conversation with Bart Leahy Here is a little about Bart (http://www.bartacus.blogspot.com/): “I am a space advocacy writer. My background includes a Master’s degree in Technical Writing, business development writing for defense and non-defen…

Reflections on writing and publishing with Phyllis Zimbler Miller… Quote by Oscar Wilde Poem from Stephen Crane – War is Kind – Stanzas I – IV Guest Conversation with Phyllis Zimbler Miller Here is a little about Phyllis from her website (http://www.BookAuthorWebsites.com): “I’m the president of http://www.millermosaic.com, a company building WordP…

Art reflecting life writing with Roberta Lee… Quote by Pearl S Buck Poem from Lord Byron (George Gordon) – She Walks in Beauty Like the Night Guest Conversation with Roberta Lee Here is a little about Roberta from her website (http://www.robertaleeart.com/): “I was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and moved to California in the early ’70’s, livin…

Talking dogs with Jacqueline Howard… Quote by John S Burroughs Poem from Elizabeth Barrett Browning – To Flush, My Dog Guest Conversation with Jacqueline Howard Here is a little about Jacqueline from her website (http://www.jacquelinehoward.com/): “I am a marketing and communications professional with twenty years experience; sixteen of those succe…

Shift into the Shadows with Marcus DeHart… Quote by John Ashbery Poem from Robert Louis Stevenson – Shadow March Guest Conversation with Marcus DeHart Here is a little about Marcus from his website (http://www.marcusdehart.com/): “Marcus DeHart is a professional writer and designer and the sole owner of Caret Marketing and Content Development. Marc…

Spiritual and psychological uplift with Joseph Langen… Quote by Seneca Poem from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – The Ladder of St. Augustine Guest Conversation with Joseph Langen Here is a little about Joe from his website (http://www.commonsense-wisdom.com/): “I began by writing short stories in the 1980’s for my own amusement. In 1990, when I began …

A Poet’s View with Jill Eisnaugle… Quote by Emily Dickinson Poem from Jill Eisnaugle – Ship of Gold Guest Conversation with Jill Eisnaugle Here is a little about Jill from her website (http://www.authorsden.com/jillaeisnaugle): “I began writing short stories due to a second grade school assignment in 1988; I began writing poetry as the result of a …

We venture into writing with rhythm with Lenn Millbower in this episode of RamblingVerser. Join us for conversation, writing prompts, poetry, and our new cast members…Enjoy… Writing with Rhythm with Guest Lenn Millbower Quote by TS Elliot Poem from Thomas Moore – Sing — Sing — Music Was Given Guest Conversation with Lenn Millbower Here is a little …

In this episode of RamblingVerser, we delve into history with a science fiction twist. Join us for a conversation with Walter Hunt and an imaginary room writing prompt… Enjoy… History Lessons Through Science Fiction with Guest Walter H. Hunt Quote by Oscar Wilde Poem excerpt from Stephen (Vincent) Benet – John Brown’s Body Guest Conversation with W…

As we establish our Podcasting channel, here is a little snippet…In this episode, we talk about the resolutions we could have made…instead we decided to add this podcast. RamblingVerser Podcast will bring you story ideas, reflections on poems both near and far, and surprise guests from the cast of millions out there who have published their writing…