Open Form Prose

How is a 60 second podcast like writing open form prose?

I'd say its pretty straight forward; Open-form prose is basically inviting the audience into a conversational setting where you can be yourself, tell a story, and communicate experiential emotion and knowledge. It's about forgetting the "rules to writing" so that you can just relax and let the narrative flow out in a very natural way. Open-form prose can be planned or unplanned, simple or complex, and either grammatically correct or not. In other words it can be anything the writer wants. As an example, the sentence I just wrote could have given off several different vibes. It could have been personal and relaxed; "In other words it can be anything you want," but instead I chose to make it slightly more professional by referring to the writer as impersonal. Changing just one word is enough to change the entire feel and flow of a narrative.

All that being said, the videocast that I did - in place of the required 60 second podcast - Was similar to writing open-form prose because, even though I planned it out, it was a very relaxed and personal message with a Pathos appeal to the listener. By inserting music created by me I was able to delve to an even deeper level of emotional appeal as well as to establish Ethos and to meet the exigency of the audience by providing them with a clear example of the story I was telling them.