121: The Old Man on the Mountain – Journaling, POV, & Character Voice

Murph confessed he struggled with this week’s prompt and wound up pulling us into his mad-cap shotgun brainstorming. That led us to a chat about journaling as a writing tool, experimenting with first vs. third person, and even pre‑planning your day in prose (yes, really).Then we read stories for The Old Man on the Mountain (an expression used by Marco Polo to describe Muhammad III of Alamut, the grand master of the Order of Assassins), which include assassins, epic quests, and a problem so absurdly NSFW that Hassan Ibn al‑Sabah would rather die than explain it to a date.Happy writing, everyone!Like this weeks episode and wish you could read as well as listen? Subscribe to our Substack for a summary of our opening discussion, a story from the episode, and a writing prompt!  Be sure to follow us on Instagram (if that's your sort of thing). Please do send us an email with your story if you write along, which we hope you will do. Episodes of Radio FreeWrite are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. All Stories remain the property of their respective authors.