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More to the Story Podcast with Janna Maron — 57 episodes
Following the Energy of Your Writing
When Linked Essays Become a Memoir
How a Private Blog Became a Memoir that Resonated with Hundreds
How One Writer Found the Heart of Her Story Through Intuition and Lineage
Growing as a Writer (Even When the Book Isn’t Finished)
How a Horse Memoir Became a 4-Part Workbook Series
The Number One Reason You Haven’t Written Your Book (Yet)
Turning Dating Stories Into Memoir
Memoir, self-trust & standing in your story
How place and sensory memory shaped A Little Piece of Cuba
One Author’s Path to Agent Representation
How to Nail Your Book Outline
Why Outlines Don’t Work For All Books
What’s in a Name?
Something Like a Reintroduction to More to the Story
Taking a Pause & How You Can Support Me
Why I Don’t Teach Structure for Books
A Simple Way to Affect the Outcome
Stop Playing Small
Who cares if you’re organized?
You feel like your book is missing something.
The Universe Will Send You What You Ask For
What is a book coach? (Part 2)
When You Learn a Lesson the Hard Way
What is a book coach?
I’m at AWP in LA this week!
What if you’re right on time?
There’s no crying in self-promotion!
Do I need 100,000 followers on social to get published?
When You’ve Never Done Something Before
Writing a Book is Kind of Like Producing the First Episode of Saturday Night Live
If you want to publish a book, what do you actually want?
Time is On Your Side
MTS 23: Self-care, community, and the Nonfiction Bootcamp with Janna Maron
MTS 22: Tinkering & braiding the threads of science and literature with Nicole Walker
MTS 21: Intersectionality through essays, memoir, and poetry with Kristie Robin Johnson
MTS 20: Reinventing the addiction memoir & writing as recovery with Tim Hillegonds
MTS 19: Diary entries becoming essays & the short form with Kelly Fig Smith
MTS 18: Heartbreak, heart devices, and conflict minerals with Kati Standefer
MTS 17: Parenthood and the confluence of son & father with James Chesbro
MTS 16: The Soundtrack of a neighborhood & processing grief with Tori Weston
MTS 15: Disability in literature & writing about life in a particular body with Rebeckah Taussig
MTS 14: Place often makes the people & paying attention to surroundings Liz Stephens
MTS 13: Embracing your subjective version of the truth & cult-classic films with Dorian Fox
MTS 12: Telling lies, asking questions & discovering personal truth in writing with Yahdon Israel
MTS 11: Writing about family & developing sympathy for others with Stephen Gutierrez
MTS 10: Structure is a b*tch & processing grief through writing nonfiction with Carol Marsh
MTS 09: Modern day monsters and crafting segmented essays with Ira Sukrungruang
MTS 08: Writing through trauma & redefining identity with Matt Young
MTS 07: Short-short nonfiction & creating literary community with Penny Guisinger
MTS 06: Spending a night in jail & turning an unpleasant experience into art with Maddy Walsh
MTS 05: Sense of place & compiling a book manuscript of essays with Timothy Kenny
MTS 04: Spirituality, sexuality & how journalism informs creative nonfiction with Samuel Autman
MTS 03: Food writing, bipolar disorder & Christina Rosetti with Kate Washington
MTS 02: Writing about grief & shaving your head with Laurie Easter
MTS 01: Collecting vinyl records & father-daughter relationships with Katy Sargent
MTS 00: What it means to tell stories without shame & the origin of Under the Gum Tree magazine with Janna Marlies Maron