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Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation — 70 episodes
Monotony Must Die: How to Keep Your Sentences Surprising
Keep Writing
Why Are People Mean? And The Lowdown on Three Super Common Grammar Mistakes.
Let’s Talk The Sexy One-Sentence Summary
It’s Okay To Dwell in the Negative Space
Do Our Brains Hurt Too Much to Think & Read?
Happy Holidays!
Flirt Your Eyelashes Off, Writers
We improvised this podcast and you can tell
Every Day Is a Whole New Life, Writers and Other Humans
How to Write Good Dialogue, Wallabies, and the Three-Beat Rule
Don’t hiss “I Love You.” Dialogue tag help and also throwing tacos isn’t cool
Do You Need a Beta Reader? Also, Georgia Police Say Don’t Copulate Outside McDonalds.
Why Fractured Families Drive Bestseller Success and He Sniffs Shoes!
Some features of the top selling novels
Want to be popular? Try a fish out of water
America as Paradise? Part of Making A Bestselling Novel?
Tick…Tick…Tick…Using Time to Make a Hit Novel
The Absolutely Simplest Plot Structure Ever
Show, Don’t Tell, Baby Face Cutie Pie Cutie
What Do Readers Want and the Kentucky Meat Shower Incident
The Elements of Storytelling: The Atomic Bomb Test
Five Quick Ways To Get Story Ideas
Setting Is SO FREAKING Important
Why Are Publishing Imprints Closing?
How To Write a Book Description That Gets Readers Tingling All Over
Pinch, there it is; googly eyes on the train, and yes, we are on our 37th career this year
Pinch Me, Baby, Talking Sexy to Writers
Just an Hour a Day Makes You More Bad Ass
Fighting, Commerce, and Ten-Cent Beer: Welcome to America and How to Frame Stories
Pot Plants Invade Wisconsin and Alternate That Plot Structure
No cow cuddles, no brain worms: Do you want to be happy?
Celestial Bodies, Sexy Knees and Story Structure via Robert McKee
Strangeness Free-for-all
How Not to be a Butt-Hole in Real Life and on the Page
Someone was sleeping outside her tent right next to her and how to make good writing habits
Strange Things In the Woods
Overcoming Negativity Bias & Toilet Rats
Why it is okay to read books you’ve already read and sometimes there’s an alligator in your kitchen
The Spiral of Ick and Quiet Winners: You Don’t Have to Flaunt Yourself to Succeed
Shaun went off the rails, but this was supposed to be about how do you sustain a career as an author
The Info Dump from Hell and How to Avoid Them and Also UFOs
Control Your Tells, Don’t Give In To the Passive
Author to Author: Chris Lynch Interview
LET’S SHOW YOU HOW SHOW VS TELL WORKS! Florida Man Poops on a Possum. We won’t show you that
RELATED TO MONSTERS AND WRITERS, GET INTO THE READER’S BRAIN IF YOU WANT TO SHOW AND NOT TELL
THE PROBLEM WITH ADVERBS & BEARS IN THE DOGGY DOOR: Let’s Show, Not Tell.
Show Us Your Wounds Writers and Stealing Seven King Cakes
Promises, Promises, Writers Promise Readers a Lot Plus a Screech Owl Chilling With Board Games
TROPE ME OUT, BABY: THE JUMP SCARE AND JANUARY IS A BLISSED OUT MONTH
Hate Hard, the Beer Poems, and Building the Life You Want
Dig Deep and Baby Owl in the Christmas Tree
WHY YOU WANT TO NOT USE ING VERBS AND IF I WERE A FISH IS THE BEST SONG EVER
Random Life Advice: Let’s Look At Each Other
A Simple Trick to Write Better: Get Rid of the Nods
Dive Into The Conflict and Make Your Book Blurb Sing
Baby bears are the new bison and how to write a book blurb
How to Make Your Book Blurb and Trippy Art About Dragon Intimacy How to Make a Shart Tantalizing?
Smuggling Giraffe Poop and Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies: Character Misbelief is Hot When You Write Novels
Happily Ever After or Happy For Now
Neither of Us are Lookers, Seventh Grade Insults and Character Misbeliefs
YOUR BIG LIE OR CHARACTER’S MISBELIEF
Strange Storm Things
Repurpose Spider Hairs, Licking Rocks, and Counting Dead People’s Nose Hairs: Logic Matters and so do the Ig Nobles
Is Your Life a Stand Alone or A Series?
Young Woman at the Cocktail Party
A Deep Dive Into The Strange
Brave Fart and Florida Man, Let’s Talk About How Anger is Not The Enemy for Writers and Other Humans
How to Stay Motivated Even If You’re a Writer
Feel the Awe and Get Through the Tough Times