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Hi All Podcast Ep 9 Interview

The final episode of the “Read” series of The Hi All Podcast is up.

As the over all series was able my life long struggle to read, I thought we’d have fun by interview my wife Shannon Elise Muir Broden who had an entirely different experience growing up and reading.

Please take a listen.

Shannon loved reading where I didn’t.

We talk about her experience, how we met, animation, our webcomic Flying Glory and the Hounds of Glory, and Toastmasters which this whole project is for.

Please take a listen, and comment on Youtube, or here, as your comments will be including in the Speech I have to give at my Toastmasters club about this whole thing.

Also, please Like and Subscribe to my Youtube Channel. I’m 12 away from 100.

Thank you all for the support.

Kevin

Hi All Podcast Ep 8

Hi All,

This whole Hi All Podcast series, done for Toastmasters, has been about my struggle to read from childhood on into adulthood.

Comic Books got me through school. Rarely was there a class assigned book that I enjoyed. Only after getting out of the structure of education did I find things on my own that I enjoyed to completion.

First came fantasy, and then science fiction, and then a love for mystery stories.

What I found however was that no matter the genre I had to enjoy the characters and their relationships to like the book. For me a fantasy couldn’t just be about the dragons, a science fiction story shouldn’t just be about spaceships, and mystery isn’t all about deductive reasoning.

I would stumble upon a genre that fit what I really needed in a book with interesting characters and relationships. That genre: Romance.

Hi All Podcast – Episode 5

Hi All,

I was at my local comic shop when I learned that the King of Comics, Jack Kirby, would be a guest on a local radio station. I had to listen in! It took a while to find the station on the radio dial – yes, I’m that old – but eventually I got it running and listened to his wisdom on art and working in comics.

I would soon be a regular listener to this program every Friday evening. It focused on Science Fiction and related topics. It was Mike Hodel’s Hour 25. “The Hour That Stretches.”

This show would introduce me to many great science fiction authors.

Thoughts on Fan Fiction

I suppose, I am a Brony.

As mentioned previously, I began my creative exploits in art, I wanted to be a comic book artist. Drawing super heroes; my dream job would have been to draw the All-Star Squadron off of Roy Thomas’ scripts.

At the start I hadn’t thought about writing my own stories, but it wasn’t long before I realized that art, whether it be in comic books or not, was all about telling stories.

The first actual story I remember writing, was based off of a dream, which in turn was based off of the Transformers animated series… no actually in the dream it was characters out of GoBots (which I didn’t watch a lot of). What I actually wrote, which was absolutely terrible in the end, became a story about enemy aliens fighting a war here on earth, but only experiencing life as humans, did they find a way to come together in peace.

I didn’t write any comic book related stories until Junior High School as part of a class. I wrote a Secret Origin story for a couple characters I called “The Aqua Sister”. The teacher liked it, but nothing much came from it. Though over the years I have developed it into something else, a Lovecraft like story, that one of these days I will actually write the full story. The teacher liked another story I wrote at that time, which is a lot closer to the type of stories I write today, but that’s for another day.

Along with comic books, I also enjoyed animations. Very rarely did I come up with an animation-based story that I jotted down and turned into an actual story. Most of what I did amounted to a couple pages of notes.

During this time I was writing a long story about detectives and aliens. There was a lot to it, but I’ve put it away from now. Though the characters live on in other stories I’ve written.

Very Short Post

Hi all,
It’s been a very long week—what do you mean this is only Tuesday?
Today, and much of the week, I’ll be with my family helping out where I can. So this blog post is going to be really small, but I made the promise to post on each Tuesday, and a Substack on Thursdays, so please go and read the existing posts on both.
Let’s see what I can write about now.
Let’s start with a simple questions:
How are you doing?
Have you been staying creative?
I know it isn’t always easy, but we have to keep at it.
Creativity can start very small. I once wrote a murder mystery that began by describing fruit falling from a tree outside my window. It was quite a nasty little murder.
Have you ever seen something odd in the street. Perhaps a shoe, and wondered how it got there? I do that all the time, stories can come from all most anything.
I think I’ll turn this little thought piece into a great blog latter, but for now, I think this is all I can write.
Thank you all for sticking around and being creative.

Lover on a Shelf

I feel like I have been cheating on a lover.
A few months ago I walked into a bookstore (that chain store, you know the one) to explore while I waited for my wife to get off work.

I don’t know what to write…

There are times when you don’t know what to Blog about.

I know I need to create a calendar and list of ideas for upcoming blogs, but sometimes that takes as much work as writing the blog itself does.

So where do ideas come from? I have no idea.

My Career In Comics, So far…

This is probably going to be the more boring and least interesting post in this series, but let’s give it a try.

As mentioned, I was a young kid discovering comic books when I knew I wanted to be a comic book artist, and being an artist, I soon discovered that I was a story teller so that meant I was a writer as well. I emulated the artists and writers I loved in the comic.

Yesteryear

“This is KPSB radio, beginning its broadcast day.”

My name is Kevin Paul Shaw Broden ‘Four Names of Creativity’.

I have always imagined my initials as the call letters of a radio station. Not any Top 40 pop station, or 24 hours of talking heads; no, my station exists in the golden age of radio of the 1930s to the 1950s. When tales of adventure ruled the airways.

That was the beginning of my very first Toastmasters speech, and as this blog series is part of an upcoming speech, I thought I would start here.

Before comic books, and while super heroes existed inn Saturday Morning Cartoon, I was discovering them on the radio.

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