Summary: r Imagine this: You've met a total character. She's kind of eccentric. She has forty-one animals in her backyard and it's not a farm. And, just about every time she talks, she says something amazing. In radio parlance, she 'spits tape.' But, there's no story. You pull out all the stops trying cull out a story by interviewing and spending time with the woman and her animals. Nothing works. All you're left with is a bunch of great tape and no clear way to organize it -- no story. What do you do? In short, that's what happened to producer Joel Supple. This fall, Joel attended the Transom Story Workshop to learn the craft of radio storytelling. While she was there..... I guess I should probably say "here" not "there" since I taught the workshop..... so..... While she was here, Joel stumbled upon Veronica Worthington and her menagerie in West Dennis on Cape Cod. Joel spent a few hours with Veronica and collected a ton of great tape but..... no story. On this HowSound we feature to Joel's piece -- her first ever -- and I talk about solving the conundrum: How do you produce a story when there is no story? Happy Listening, Rob PS - Transom.org is running another workshop in April and May of 2012.
