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    Fiction

    Cutting Chai Stories: Write copy that feels good

    Click. Click. Click.

    That’s the sound of you doing anything OTHER than writing your copy.

    Sales page needs to be written? Ummm, *after* my second cup of chai.
    Emails are underperforming? Maybe I’ll skip the weekly email.
    Blank page mocking you? Let me scroll other accounts on Instagram…

    When you’re feeling stuck with your copy and are in avoid-or-ignore mode, copywriting can feel like a dark art practiced only by mysterious scribes in secret ways.

    That’s when you either give up on your copy and pay for a template or a copywriter to take the whole damn thing off your plate.

    Trouble is, you often end up sounding wooden or like someone else entirely — if you’re even putting copy out there at all.

    But what to do when you don’t have a fancy writing degree and you haven’t the first clue what to write about? You know the words are important — your words are the primary way your audience gets a taste of you, after all — and you know that you need to use them more effectively so your audience can find you, hire you, and PAY you.

    So what’s a marketing-shy, overthinking business owner like you to DO???

    That’s where I, and Cutting Chai Stories, come in. I’m Jayati Vora, a recovering journalist who brings two decades of editing chops, my love of chai, and my style of storytelling to the world of marketing and copy.

    In episodes of just 15 minutes or less, I’ll walk you through the basics of writing your copy yourself, in a voice that your grandma would recognize, and how to be your own brand’s wingman without slimy marketing tactics.

    Cutting Chai Stories is jam-packed with highly actionable tips on writing, editing, and storytelling, with a dash of masala, so you can sell your services and products with confidence.

    Episodes air on Thursdays and feature occasional interviews with business owners who’ve learned to harness the power of copy, and the marketers and copywriters who work with them.

    Start connecting with your customers in your copy with my free mini course, delivered to your inbox when you sign up for my twice-weekly email newsletter, Chai in my Inbox: www.cuttingchaistories.com/subscribe

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    Season 3 trailer Jul 08, 2021
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    Season 3 launches verrrry soon!

    Listen here for a Cutting Chai Stories win (discover new content here) and for what I have in store for you with the next season.

    Thanks for listening!


    S2 Ep 22: Playwright, director and slam poet Shivani Tibrewala on how to create subtext in theater Mar 25, 2021
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    Hello and welcome to the last episode of Season 2 of Cutting Chai Stories! I'm your host Jayati Vora and on today's show, I speak to playwright and director Shivani Tibrewala, of No License Yet productions, who explains the peculiar tension between dialogue and subtext in theater, and how to create it. She reads an excerpt of her monologue, Avoid the Void. And she recalls her part in the nascent slam poetry scene in Mumbai.

    To contact Shivani, you can email nolicenseyet@gmail.com

    About Shivani:

    Shivani Tibrewala is a poet, playwright, and screenwriter from Mumbai, India and an empaneled artist with the Indian Council of Cultural Relations. She is the founder-director of No License Yet, a theatre company known for producing socially relevant pieces of theatre such as Retellings (a feminist interpretation of the Ramayana), and has herself written, directed and produced 10 plays since 2002 starring some of the biggest names in the Indian performing arts such as Tom Alter, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Mallika Sarabhai, Preeta Mathur, Utkarsh Mazumdar, Meenal Patel, Mona Ambegaonkar, Denzil Smith, Quasar Thakore Padamsee, Avantika Akerkar etc. Her plays has been published by Writers Workshop India, on Muse India and in a Croatian anthology featuring works by Women Writers from India. She has been commissioned to write plays by Theatre Royal Plymouth (UK), Flinntheater (Germany), The Moving Image Factory (Canary), etc. and her plays have traveled far and wide both in India and abroad and have completed over 500 shows. She has written for various television series including the kids daily "Hello Dolly" based on The Princess Diaries, and a few feature films, including a comic musical for kids called "Music School" (based on The Sound of Music) the music for which is currently being composed by the maestro Ilaiyaraaja, a biopic on the life of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw currently being produced by Ronnie Screwvala, a medical thriller based on her critically acclaimed play "The Laboratory" which was shortlisted by Sundance, a horror film called "Sex on the Beach" that was one of the ten stories in the feature "Dus Kahaniyaan" produced by Whitefeather Films, and numerous other screenplays she is currently pitching to producers.


    S2 Ep 21: 9 and a half tips to get the words out of your head and onto the paper Mar 11, 2021
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    This week I was stuck when it came to what to talk about on this episode, and I thought: Might YOU be stuck too? So I made a list of the things I do to get inspired when I'm feeling anything but, how to actually DO the writing -- in other words, stop daydreaming and start day-doing -- and my top tips for rewriting or editing your work.

    The writing prompt, too, is inspired by this list of tips.

    So listen, follow along, and then tell me: Which tip resonated the most for you? Which one landed and got you off your butt and into your chair? Did you finish that writing project you were procrastinating on doing?

    The folks in my paid writing challenge, 25 Days to Done, are getting these tips and more, my personal attention and feedback on their work for the duration. If you're interested in signing up the next time I hold it, ping me at cuttingchaistories AT gmail DOT com.



    S2 Ep 20: Jennifer Liss on why exercising your silly muscle is good for business Mar 04, 2021
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    Hello hello and welcome back to this slightly silly and mostly fun episode of Cutting Chai Stories. I'm your host Jayati Vora, and today on the show I speak to Creative Commute podcast host and creator Jennifer Liss, who talks about how letting out your inner weirdo (my words, not hers) can inspire others to let their silly selves shine through. Being silly leads to having fun, which leads to more creativity in your work life.

    Plus, a truly hilarious writing prompt (that can also be drawn or acted out).

    About Jen and where to find her on the interwebs:

    About Jennifer Liss

    Jennifer Liss is marketing copywriter and founder of The Creative Commute, a podcast and community focused on fueling joy through creativity. The effort began as a way to stay optimistic during the spread of the global pandemic and has grown into a thriving virtual community.

    The Creative Commute Community

    The Creative Commute Podcast

    CreativeCommute.com



    S2 Ep 19: Get your freak on! Feb 25, 2021
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    Why do I like mango but not watermelon? Why do you read sci-fi but not magic realism? Why this and not that? AND--why are we spending an entire episode talking about something as obvious as our likes and dislikes? Everyone has them. SO WHAT?

    I'll tell you so what. We can lean into our inner freaks, embrace the little weird quirks and mannerisms that we might otherwise try to hide, and use them as our own personal Bat signals to call out to the other freaks who are our perfect audience. Instead being bland, beige, and blending in, why not get our freak on so we can attract our ideal clients? It's WAY less exhausting than attracting a huge audience and having to cull them.

    In this episode, I look at two examples of copy on the websites of two successful online businesswomen. One is freaky, the other is not. Both work. But I'm more attracted to the freaky one.

    What about you?



    How Kenn Nesbitt's poems for kids are the gateway drug to everything Feb 18, 2021
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    My interview with Kenn Nesbitt, who is an American children’s poet and humorist, and author of more than 20 books for kids. In 2013, he was named Children’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. His website, poetry4kids.com is the most visited children’s poetry site on the internet.

    Kenn talks about how he loves to twist children's brains with impossible ideas, how he rewrites each line in his head 10 times, yet sometimes the best idea is the first idea, where he gets the inspiration from for his funny poems, why he thinks poems are a delivery vehicle for jokes, and why, though he doesn't tackle the difficult subjects of life, his aim is to turn children into readers, and ultimately writers.

    Listen in for the current favorite poem on his website today, the list of poets and poems who influenced him, and how he only started writing poetry in his 30s (which means there's hope for all us late bloomers yet!).

    Kenn's influences

    Mother Goose
    Dr. Seuss
    Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven
    Robert Service' poems, The Cremation of Sam McGee, The Shooting of Dan McGrew
    Rudyard Kipling's poems
    The nonsense poems of Lewis Caroll (Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass)
    Mad Magazine's song parodies
    Shel Silverstein's Sara Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out


    S2 Ep 17: How to Show, Not Tell -- and Why Feb 11, 2021
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    All of us have probably heard that adage of good writing from an English teacher in our childhood: Show, don't tell.

    But what does it mean? Is "telling" the enemy? (No, it isn't.)

    HOW does one show and not tell?

    Can you give me examples?

    All these questions answered in today's episode, and more, plus a writing prompt that will give you the opportunity to show off your newly acquired "showing" skills.

    Passages quoted are from Rabih Alameddine's "The Angel of History;" and two restaurant reviews by the then New York Times food critic, Frank Bruni, here (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/19/dining/reviews/the-steady-center-of-an-expanding-universe.html) and here (https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/dining/reviews/07rest.html).


    S2 Ep 16: Can a list be a poem? Demystifying poetry Feb 05, 2021
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    First, my apologies for the delay in releasing this episode. I had prepped it and then belatedly realized that I should probably ask permission of the two poets whose work I recited here first. It took a day to do that and hear back from them -- thankfully, it was a yes or else this episode would have had to be rerecorded and that would have taken even longer! -- but now I can hit publish on this without any niggling feelings that I hadn't covered all my bases.

    Today we talk about poetry. It can feel mysterious and inaccessible (and let's face it, some poetry is just that), but here's an easy introduction to a particular kind of poem that is as accessible as a grocery list -- namely, the list poem.

    In this episode, I read "Happy" by Jerry Pinto, who I interviewed on this podcast back in Season 1 (Part 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/76a1iQ8ab3qJOwPRA3ifkB?si=Rpphv0lhSYStnWUEOYTF8Q and Part 2: https://open.spotify.com/episode/700xAf3T4jzDYkppVLVvyL?si=monkzRc1SwS92cIvyygKCQ here).

    The poem is featured in his book "Tickle Me, Don't Tickle Me," which you can check out here: https://www.speakingtigerbooks.com/shop/childrens/tickle-me-dont-tickle-me/

    I also read "That Explains It!" by U.S. Children's Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt, whose work can be found on his website, which I highly encourage you to check out: https://www.poetry4kids.com/

    And if you write your own poem in response to the prompt--do share it with me!


    S2 Ep 15: Business coach Rayna Jhaveri on energetic exchange, being unapologetically yourself, and abandoning pain points Jan 28, 2021
    Show notes

    This is a different kind of episode. In it, I talk with my business coach, Rayna Jhaveri, about how, as entrepreneurs, as course creators, as teachers, what we teach or what we sell is just the gift wrapping for who we are. She talks about the power of energy and how that affects the way your audience will perceive your creation. And she talks about finding another way to reach customers than pain points. Listen in for her unashamedly non-mainstream approach, her wisdom in all things business and human, and her special Rayna magik.

    You can follow her on Instagram @the.punkmonk or check out her culinary talents on the TV show Milk Street.


    S2 Ep 14: Use contrast to punch up your copy Jan 21, 2021
    Show notes

    Hello hello and welcome back to Cutting Chai Stories!

    First off -- you are invited. I'm hosting a DRESS UP YOUR WRITING party. It's going to be loads of fun, nerding out on words, and not needing to mingle. We'll meet on Zoom -- all you need is a fancy dress from your closet to channel your inner badass, a drink in your hand, AND an email to your list that you want to workshop. I'll bring the funfetti and best of all, will do hot seat coaching on how to bring your badass self into your writing!

    Email me at cuttingchaistories AT gmail DOT com to RSVP and for the deets.

    For today, we talk about the use of contrast. Why use it, what we can do with it, and examples of effective contrast in writing fiction and ad copy!


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