About this podcast
As part of the 2024 National Podcast Post Month Challenge, author / podcaster / audiobook narrator George Sirois is welcoming you into his personal recording studio and discussing the various elements that led him to narrating audiobooks, producing his own podcasts, and adapting one of his novels into an audio drama.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 60 episodes
- Into the POOL · 12 min · Season 2 Episode 60It may have taken a bit longer than I intended for the 30 episodes to be posted, but 30 episodes were recorded by November 30. So I'll take my asterisk and drop a little bit of…
- Austin Revolution - Part 3 · 14 min · Season 2 Episode 59It's time for the gala. Would I get my first actual award for my writing? Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity exists primarily as a platform for creatives of all kinds…
- Austin Revolution - Part 2 · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 58I had no idea how quickly I would find my people at the Austin Revolution Film Festival. Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity exists primarily as a platform for creatives…
- Austin Revolution - Part 1 · 7 min · Season 2 Episode 57Something I wrote has been nominated for an award! So of course, I was going to be there for it. Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity exists primarily as a platform for…
- The 24-Hour Play · 13 min · Season 2 Episode 55I always wanted to see if I had what it took to write a 24-Hour Play, to go from idea to concept to finished script to rehearsed show and performance in just 24 hours. In 2005, I…
- Minus One Plus · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 56In 2023, I wrote my first short film script in over 25 years... and it would change my life for the better. Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity exists primarily as a…
- The 6ixth Floor · 16 min · Season 2 Episode 54In 1999, a group of my friends & I had a camera and a LOT of very random ideas, with New York City as our backdrop. It was a magical time, and it led to a Monster Musical…
- My Second (Unpaid) Commission · 8 min · Season 2 Episode 53It's a great feeling when someone says they have an idea with a script and they're looking in your direction to write it. Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity exists…
- From Script to Book to Books · 15 min · Season 2 Episode 52It was known as "Manhunter." Then it was known as "Submission." Now and forever, the story that became a video game, then a treatment, then a script, and finally a book before a…
- Project Greenlight · 10 min · Season 2 Episode 51I took another shot not long after the film festival and tried submitting "Seeking Retribution" to a new project Matt Damon & Ben Affleck started on HBO... Excelsior Journeys…
- My First Film Festival... Kind of... · 9 min · Season 2 Episode 50After I finished the script for "Manhunter," I took a shot at entering it into a film festival in NYC... and it got in! Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity exists…
- From Video Game to Script · 13 min · Season 2 Episode 49One day, I asked myself, what would that video game idea look like as a treatment to a film? Later on, I asked what that treatment would look like as a feature-length script…
- It Started as a Video Game · 10 min · Season 2 Episode 4830 years after this idea took shape, it's still going today. I'm very proud of it. Here's how the story that would eventually be "From Parts Unknown" found its way to different…
- Something to Believe In · 10 min · Season 2 Episode 47FINALLY! Something I wrote actually went somewhere. This is the story of my first completed short film script. Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity exists primarily as a…
- Last Semester · 9 min · Season 2 Episode 46I never thought I would have so much fun in college, but that's what my final semester was. And that led to a LOT of writing. Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity exists…
- Fan Fiction · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 45I took a couple dips into the wonderful world of fan-fiction, and one of them even made its way to becoming a finished screenplay. To read Batman Triumphant, click HERE…
- What Would Eddie Do? · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 44Very grateful that my college allowed me to take another crack at playwriting. Special Thanks to voice actors Audra Angelique & Erika Harvey for performing one of my short…
- Two Full-Length Scripts · 14 min · Season 2 Episode 43The summer of 1996 brought about the completion of two very different screenplays, plus an unexpected idea for another. Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity exists…
- Completing the Trilogy · 13 min · Season 2 Episode 42Thanks to some musical inspiration, I realized that there was a trilogy in Phoenix Rising, not just one story. And the end results... weren't bad. But these characters had a much…
- Waiting in the Wings · 12 min · Season 2 Episode 41I didn't have to wait long before someone would reach out and ask me to write a screenplay for them. My first unpaid commission - which wouldn't be the last - was a very…
