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Words to Write by — 97 episodes
Week 6: The Pampering Paradox
Week 5: The Virtue Trap
Week 4: The Morning Pages Report
Week 3: The Pushback
Week 2: External Blockers (and Internal Doubts)
Week 1: Let's Talk About Shadow Artists
The Morning Pages Experiment
Starting The Artist's Way (Send Help)
Robot Reporters Need Not Apply: A Journalist's Stand
Teaching Kids to Write in the Age of ChatGPT
AI and Your Manuscript: Editor Kristen Tate's Honest Take
What's Really Happening When AI Writes? An Interview with Bill Moore
Not Your Usual Words to Write By: The AI Podcasting Challenge
AI & Authorship: Where's the Line?
Beyond the Book: AI Solutions for Author Marketing
Harnessing AI Without Losing Your Voice: A Talk with Kate Scott
Brave New Workshop: When your Critique Partner is a Chatbot
Brainstorming with Bots: The Ethics of AI-Assisted Creativity
The Writer's Last Journey: Heroes, AI, and the Future of Writing
Getting to the Climax: The Anatomy of Romance Novels with Lia Riley
End of the Road: The Last Two Stages of the Hero's Journey
Lost in the Ordeal: Navigating the Hero's Darkest Hour
Writing the Return Home: More Than Just a Victory Lap
Empowering the Powerless: Tim Waggoner's Tips for Keeping Horror Heroes Active
The Road to Armageddon: A Workshop with Summer H. Hanford
Get Thee Characters to the Cave!
Fixing the Saggy Middle: A Workshop with Kristen Tate
Tests, Allies, and Enemies, Oh My!
Crossing the Threshold
Writing Your College Application Essay
Answering the Call to Adventure
Workshop: Plotting a Murder with Colette Clark
You are Now Leaving the Ordinary World
Boy Bands & Archetypes
The Role of the Trickster and Other Archetypes
Workshop with Madix: Writing and Revising LitRPG
Female Shapeshifters and Other Questionable Archetypes
Workshop with Elana Gomel: What to do if your Hero is a Girl?
The Mentor Behind Every Great Hero
Workshop: Renee Creates a Monster-Hero
What Makes a Hero
Workshop: Mapping Kim's Novel to the Hero's Journey
Mapping the Hero's Journey
The Writer's Journey. Let's Do This.
Remembering the Day When...
Workshop: Naming Names in your Memoir
Let's Not Get Sued (for Writing a Memoir)
The Secret to Getting Your Short Stories Published
"Workshop: Analyzing How Time Works in Memoir
Time Travel in Memoir
Musing: Memoir's Secret Ingredient
You CAN handle the truth (in your memoir)
Finding Your Memoir's Form
Making Your Memoir Matter
Truth VS Narrative in Memoir
Bye Bye Birdy
Why Do You Write?
What To Do When You Have Writer’s Block
Writing Groups: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Writing Advice from the 90s
Shut (those voices in your head) Up & Write
Beyond Butt In Chair
What to do when your Novel is a Beautiful Mess
Getting Your Novel Right -- Scene Setting and Reworking
Character Driven Plot, plus Dialogue!
Tilling Your Characters' Emotional Acres
Shitty First Drafts and Beyond!
And now for something completely different ... Bird by Bird
ChatGPT, Write me my Novel
Bend It Like Bickham (the scene, that is)
Dramatic Principals & Devices FTW
Common Scene Errors
Dispatches from a DIY Writing Retreat
The One Where We Go on a Writing Retreat
Getting Wild with Scene and Sequels
Speeding Up and Slowing Down your Novel
Sequels: the Glue that Holds Scenes Together
Tactical Disasters, Meaningful Change, and More Scene Rules. Oh, My!
Making a Scene
The Cart Goes After the Horse - Getting Cause and Effect Right in your Story
Starting your book off right
Auf Wiedersehen, Bradbury, and onto Scene and Structure
Work! Relax! Don't Think! No problem
So you want to be a screenwriter
Five People a Writer Needs in their Career
Writing Marathons and Playing with Memories
How to Feed and Care for your Muse
Writing with Gusto
Goodbye Gardner, Hello Bradbury
Come for the Plot. Stay for the Stripper.
Techniques
Common Errors
Metafiction, Deconstruction, and Jazzing Around
Interest and Truth
Basic Skills, Genre, and Fiction as Dream
Aesthetic Law and Artistic Mystery
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