Information and inspiration on writing, publishing, craft, mindset, productivity and making the most of your writing life with New York Times bestselling author Taylor Stevens and indie author Stephen Campbell. This podcast will help you kick writing in the butt one word at a time.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 days 1 hour 37 minutes
episode 226: Adding your Worldview to your Stories
We begin this week’s episode by discussing Taylor’s recent email / Patreon post about Covid-19. If you haven’t read it yet and wish to do so, it’s available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/break-from-34892965 If you’ve read her message,
episode 224: TSS225: How Going Deeper than the Obvious Makes Characters Feel Real and Alive
In this week’s episode, Taylor shares her thoughts on the importance of going deeper with your characters and how that helps to bring them to life in the minds of your readers. As you’ll hear, it doesn’t take a lot of additional words to make this happ...
episode 224: TSS224: How to Develop Character in a Plot-driven Story
In this week’s episode, Taylor discovers an interesting source for teaching material, her first book, The Informationist. As you may know, she’s reading The Informationist for the first time as a reader, and she’s finding teaching moments inside the ma...
TSS223: Thought, Action, Speech, and… Gardening.
In this week’s episode, Taylor shares some recent experience with gardening and how it relates to refilling her creative well. Then we get into an in-depth discussion of the Hack The Craft concept of Thought, Action, Speech.
TSS222: The Way Thoughts Present Themselves In Your Mind Can Affect Your Writing
In this week’s episode, Taylor and Steve discuss the idea that we don’t all “hear” the same things in our minds. Some have thoughts that form as words and sentences, while others have thoughts as concepts, or what Taylor refers to as bolts of lightning...
TSS221: We’ve Got Questions, Taylor Has Answers
In this week’s episode, we start with chit chat (as usual) and Steve shares his reaction to Liar’s Legacy. Then we get into questions that we’ve gathered over the past few months for Taylor. For those who can’t get enough of Taylor,
TSS220: How To Avoid Teleportation Issues In Your Writing
In this week’s episode, Taylor shares her thoughts on teleportation issues, how they differ in movies and writing, and how to avoid them with your stories. Thanks so much for joining us again this week! If you have questions or suggestions for future s...
TSS219: What’s the difference between showing emotion and evoking emotion in your readers?
In this week’s episode, which comes from a reader question, we consider the difference between showing emotions to your readers and evoking emotion in those readers. If you don’t yet have your copy of Liars’ Legacy,
TSS218: Should You Give Away a Free Book to Encourage Readers to Signup to Your Email List?
In this week’s episode, we discuss putting your best foot forward with readers if you choose to give away free books as lead generation for your email list. If you don’t yet have your copy of Liars’ Legacy, you can get it wherever books are sold,
TSS217: Do You Know Your Villain as Well as You Know Your Hero?
In this week’s episode, we dig into the strength of your protagonist, and how that strength depends upon your antagonist. If you don’t yet have your copy of Liars’ Legacy, you can get it wherever books are sold,