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The Quiet Quotient — 107 episodes

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The Habit That Slows Down Almost Every New Writer

2

Nightcrawler Movie Breakdown (A Hero Story Told From the Wrong Side of the Lens)

3

What Fight Club Gets Right About Being Wrong About Yourself

4

How Great Writers Get More Done In Less Time (Without Giving Up Quality)

5

May the Force Story Structure Be With You (Write Like You Are The New Hope For Aspiring Authors and Writers)

6

I Tried Writing Like Earnest Hemingway for 24 Hours (It Got Weird)

7

I Rewrote the Same Scene 5 Times (And Why You Should Too)

8

A Reader Doesn't Owe You Their Attention (But They Do Owe You This)

9

Steal This Scene Structure From The Movie Jaws

10

You Don’t Have Writer’s Block, You Have Too Many Options (Letting Go of Being a Perfectionist and Gaining Focus)

11

The One Quiet Skill That Will Make Your Writing Feel Effortless (Leading to More Creativity)

12

Be a Better Writer and Communicator by Doing This (It's Simpler Than You Think)

13

How Do You Come Up With Your Story Ideas? (If I Had a Dollar Everytime Time I was Asked.......I'd be......)

14

The Character That Broke All My Rules And My Brain (10 Points on Character Development)

15

Why Ignoring Your Story Might Be the Only Genius Move You’ll Ever Make

16

Create Your Characters Slowly (How To Build Great Intentional Personalities)

17

"The Lottery" a Short Story by Shirley Jackson (Re-Written as a Sketch)

18

The Gatsby Glitch: (Important Lessons on Public Image Taught Via a Classic Novel)

19

How to Keep Your Writing Relatable (Make Your Reader Feel Less Alone)

20

The Kindness of Using Simple Language When Writing (Why It Matters)

21

Using Imagination as a Writing Muscle (Consistency is Key)

22

How To Build a Memorable Character for a Sketch (From a Second City Trained Writer)

23

Why Writers Mistake Silence for Emptiness (And the Creative Power of the Gap)

24

Every New Writer is Like a Garage Band (How to Find Your Voice and Writing Style)

25

The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe's Iconic Story as a Sketch)

26

Writing Is Mostly Rearranging Furniture

27

The Sentence That Thinks It's Important (And Why It Might Be)

28

The Invisible Reader Sitting Behind You (Would Your Writing Keep Their Attention?)

29

If War and Peace Were a Sketch (Chapters 1-3 Re-written as a Sketch)

30

It’s Okay Not to Know Where Your Writing Is Going

31

Build at Night (Escape The Traditional Writing Hustle)

32

The Garbage Draft Strategy (Why It Works Every Time)

33

The "Try-Hard" Trap - (Why Simple Writing is Actually Harder)

34

How Writing Is Like a Great Netflix Series

35

The Quiet Rebuilding Journey (How To Start Over With Your Writing and Other Things)

36

Writing After Having a Good Day

37

Writing About People You Love (Without Betraying Them)

38

Writing and the Fear of Being Ordinary

39

Writing When You're Not Inspired (Why This Is Important)

40

The Myth of "Finding Your Voice"

41

The Committee In The Attic (Avoiding Writing Judgment In Your Own Mind)

42

Your First Draft Is Allowed To Be Bad

43

The Setence You Write That Saves The Day (Revitalize Your Writing)

44

Writing for An Audience of One

45

Editing as an Act of Respect

46

Writing in a Season of Burnout

47

The Quiet Power of Small Ideas

48

Writing Through Doubt

49

The Discipline of Showing Up (Consistency Building Writing Skills)

50

Stop Specializing Yourself Into a Corner

51

The Secret Ingredient That Makes Every Skill Better

52

How Writing Is Like Rock and Roll (The Answer May Surprise You)

53

Writing Needs To Be Clearer Not Louder (How to Accomplish That)

54

Writing That Sounds Too Sure Of Itself (I don't trust it)

55

Trust Shows Up In The Margins ( Stop Trying To Impress, Be Real)

56

End With Forward Motion (Give Your Reader Hope)

57

Before You Hit Publish Ask Yourself One Important Question

58

Let Restraint Do The Work (Say Less Impact More)

59

The Stage and the Keyboard (Risks and the Payoff)

60

Trust Shows Up In The Margins (Stop Impressing, Be Human)

61

Your Business Maybe Small, Your Market Isn't (And How Your Content Should Reflect That)

62

Hiring a Ghostwriter Can Change Your Content For The Better (Here's How)

63

Why Structure Is the Backbone of Quality Writing

64

Quality Content Starts With Intent, Not Keywords

65

Content Writing vs. Blog Writing (And Why It Actually Matters)

66

The Trap of Trying to Write Like Someone Else

67

Writing in Small Spaces of Time (How to Make the Most of Your Writing Time)

68

The Curse and Blessing of Being Edited

69

Why Writers Need to Read Outside Their Genre

70

What To Do When You Struggle To Write The Next Line

71

How Your Writing Space Shapes Your Words

72

The Writer You Were vs.The Writer You Are Now

73

Writing When You're Tired (And Other Excuses That Hold You Back)

74

The Draft You Never Show Anyone

75

When Writing Feels Pointless (Why That’s When It Matters Most)

76

The Art of Writing for One Person

77

Deadlines And Daydreams (How to Stay on Schedule and Create Your Best Work)

78

Why Red Dead Redemption 2 Is One of the Best Games Ever Made ( A Writer’s Look at How Rockstar Turned a Western Into a Masterclass in Storytelling)

79

The Algorithm vs. the Artist (What Happens When Creativity Meets The Constant Scroll)

80

The Inbox Ate My Inspiration (When Productivity Kills The Spark And How To Steal It Back)

81

Explore, Play, Write ( How Staying Curious Keeps Your Creative Mind Alive)

82

What's So Scary About Finishing Your Draft? (Why Ending a Project Is So Hard)

83

System Error: What Mr. Robot Taught Me About Rewriting Reality

84

Write Fast, Edit Furiously

85

The Show You Can't Watch From Home

86

What The Chicago Bears Can Teach Us About Writing Better Stories

87

The Fine Art of Saying Nothing Well

88

Confessions of a Keyboard Whisperer (The Secret Life of My Sentences)

89

AI and the Creative Mind

90

Letters You’ll Never Send

91

When Writing Feels Like a Sketch That Might Flop, or Pop

92

The Writer’s Digital Dilemma

93

Attention Spans and the 10-Second Story

94

The New Drafting Partner: What AI Can (and Can’t) Do for Writers

95

The Upside Down Of Writing (The Stranger Things of Writing)

96

Humanity Over Machinery - Why My Voice (& Your Voice) Matters More Than Ever

97

The Power of Minor Edits and How They Impact Your Writing

98

What It Sounds Like When Your Narrator Can't Be Trusted

99

Where Are We On The AI Hype Curve?

100

Writers, Stop Wasting Time on Rituals (Here’s What Really Works)

101

Think of Rejection Letters as Love Letters

102

Killing Darlings and Other Editing Techniques

103

Why Finishing a Draft Feels Like a Breakup

104

The Momentum of Showing Up and Writing

105

Why Weird Ideas Win

106

Writing Is Basically Collecting Regrets

107

The Myth Of The Writing Soundtrack