All Episodes

Tool Deep Dive: The Novelist Starter Pack

Fireside Chat: Our Writing Lives Lately

Pitfalls of the Debut Novel

Tool Deep Dive: Local Bookstores and Bookshop.org

Tool Deep Dive: Notetaking For Writers

Deciding Not to Withhold a Big Reveal

Fireside Chat: Scheduling and Protecting Your Writing Time

When Writing Goals Hurt and When They Help

Pacing the First Five Pages

Interview with Writing Partners Mitu Yilma and Jumoke Balogun

The Power of Subtext in Storytelling

Tool Deep Dive: Tarot for Writers

Fireside Chat: Writing Like an Olympian

What’s a Commercial Hook and How Do I Write One?

Tool Deep Dive: Writing Retreats

Interview with Duke Writing Instructor Luke Burkbauer

Writing Time Jumps

Tool Deep Dive: Increasing Your Luck Surface Area

Fireside Chat: An Optimistic Approach to First Drafts

Hallie Ephron's "One-Two Punch" for Character Introductions

How Grammarly Can Help (and Hurt) Your Writing

Interview with Essayist and Medical Anthropologist Dr. Alexandra Middleton

MINI: Following Your Writerly Intuition (Quote Series #4)

MINI: Why Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels Matter (Quote Series #3)

MINI: Paradox, Playfulness, and the Writing Life (Quote Series #2)

MINI: Standing on the Shoulders of Literary Giants (Quote Series #1)

MINI: How and Why You Should Write Until Failure

MINI: Writing When Life Gets Busy

MINI: Why Plot Twists Matter

MINI: What's In My Bag - Writing Edition

MINI: How much should I plan and outline before writing?

MINI: 4 Ways to Simplify Beta Reading

MINI: The best mindset shift for your writing practice

BONUS: Interview with Writer and Producer Jaimie Woo

Hillary's Ask Me Anything

Tool Deep Dive: What movie trailers teach us about storytelling

How to become your own best editor

Fireside Chat: Pros and Cons of Scrivener Writing Software

How can body doubling improve my writing practice?

How do I develop suplots?

BJ Williams’ Ask Me Anything

How should I structure a scene?

Should I save up my good ideas?

Fireside Chat: How should I use the revision spreadsheet?

Is Goodreads a useful tool for writers?

Should I work on multiple projects at once?

MINI: Why let your manuscript rest?

MINI: Why rewrite? And how much is too much?

A Post NaNoWriMo Pep Talk

Mailbag Episode: Finding a Writing Routine That Works

Focus Timers for Writing Sessions

Developing Secondary Characters

Listening to Music While Writing

The Stasis = Death Beat

Instagram and Twitter for Writers

Incorporating Feedback When Editing

Voice Memos as a Brainstorming Tool

Inspiration Boards for Novel Writing

Interview with TV Writer Ritza Bloom

Tool Deep Dive: Boredom

Crafting Effective Dialogue

Navigating the Midpoint Beat

Reading Widely Across Genres

Weekly Artist Dates

Tool Deep Dive: Using Online Archives to Research for Your Novel

Writing Vividly by Removing Filtering Words

Conquering the Middle Build

Five Senses Portrait for Character Development

The 15-Minute Daily Writing Practice

Tool Deep Dive: Notebooks

Three-Act Structure

The Strange vs. the Familiar

Writing Fan Fiction

Story Grid Genre Breakdowns

Holiday Bonus: Flash Fiction Writing Workshop

Tool Deep Dive: The Revision Spreadsheet

Beta Readers and Zotero

Printed Drafts and OneNote

Short Stories as Plot and Setting Exploration and Writers’ Association Webinars

Morning Pages and the Libby App

Tool Deep Dive: Scrivener Writing Software

Character Spectrums and the Zettelkasten Notetaking System

Conceptualizing the Muse and Grammar Apps

How Often to Use Adverbs and the Writing Sprint

Writing Workshops and Text to Speech Tools

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