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You prepare as you go
About those 100 things you've started and never finished...
Get It Out Of Your Head If You Want It To Become Real
I'm making a thing!
I need you to stop only making up your story and start feeling it too
Make progress in writing by writing just one sentence
My Dinner With Capitalism
Theme, Part 3: Why theme needs to matter to you as a writer
5 Things To Be A Successful Writer (listen to me when you need a boost)
Theme, Part 2: Why themes matter in publishing
Theme Part 1: What is it, where does it go?
You need structure. I'm sorry, you just need to learn some writing basics.
How to Organize Your Story
What happened to the craft of writing lately?
Is a comic writer a "real" writer?
Your characters need to be challenged
More stuff is not necessarily cooler.
Even more writing exercises to help you write better
Please stop making diss tracks against yourself.
How to organize your own continuity (landscaper edition)
How to deal with continuity and big messes of story
I have a few thoughts about X-Men 97
Everything You Might Want To Know About Writing A Scene
Rejection is what you make of it.
Doubt happens, here's what you can do about it.
A quick note about TikTok
Give your characters some goals to help the reader feel like things matter
Listen to this if you want help describing things in writing
Don't change your art to "what sells"
There are two boxes you can fill with your attention.
Join you character in the moment to help your show/tell problems.
The value in being yourself when you market your work
Gambits for your narrative
Plot, plot, plot, plot
Your narrative and your feet
The episode with the mud puddle story
Does that (fill-in-the-blank) really help me?
5 Elements Of A Scene
Are you paying attention, part 2
Are you paying attention?
You're good enough to do better.
There isn't a wrong way to outline
6 more writing exercises for you
A quick note to writers on TikTok looking for advice
How do you know when you have enough detail?
INTERVIEW WITH AN AUTHOR!! Erin Lodes has a book, you should read it
A writing exercise about stakes
Your Guide to Stakes
I've got some vulnerability exercises for you today.
This is an episode where I encourage you to be vulnerable.
Don't worry, you're an artist.
Can we talk about your worldbuilding?
A few words about show and tell and putting a movie in the reader's mind
We need to have a few words (and a tool) about theme
David Milch has a different way of thinking about characters.
We're going to talk about talking.
Would you like 6 writing exercises?
How to describe things.
It's important to change focus from time to time.
A chatless Writers Chat for 3.5
Talking about questions and diving boards
When I get stuck, should I write something new?
Perfect is dull.
Think about your characters and your reader
A low-key chill Writers Chat for 2.27
One of the most dangerous things ever.
What's your age again?
A story about someone in their own way
A comprehensive and varied Writers Chat for 2.20
Talking about bad habits.
Here's why you should care
Who's in charge here?
A very heartfelt Writers Chat for 2.14.
BYOB - Be Your Own Boss
You, your publisher, and marketing
And now, a message from a sick day.
Looking for the interconnectedness of all your creative things.
The Writers Chat of 2.6 where I remembered to record audio
A quick trip down a nerdy memory lane.
Don't let words be fast food
Creativity is risky, do it anyway
Not quite a whole Chat, but it's pretty good.
Bringing your past up to your present for your future
Marketing is a conversation, so be a person
Every Sentence Is A Camera Part 3: Part 5: Exposition and Description
Every Sentence Is A Camera Part 3:: Part 4:: Voice (long title!)
Every Sentence Is A Camera 3: Part 3: Mood
A thankfully problem free-ish Writers Chat for 1.23
Every Sentence Is A Camera 3, Part 2: Pacing
Every Sentence Is A Camera 3, part 1: Dialogue
Do your best work.
Your premise can be a shovel, it's okay
A Writers Chat without music but still a good one for January 16th
About that George Carlin AI thing...
After a conversation I had with a writer who loves AI...
An update about episodes this week
Listen to this if your family doesn't "get" you
Have you thought about editing lately?
Remind me why we listen to booktube?
Everything you might possibly want to know about themes.