The Taylor Stevens Show

In this episode, Taylor takes a deep dive into dialogue, what it must accomplish in fiction and how to balance between the need to reveal character and to inform your reader and drive the plot forward. This is the first of what will become a series,

This is part two of this short Hack The Craft episode, where Taylor digs deep into the importance of quickly setting up the readers mental movie with chapter openings and after narrative breaks. We split into two episodes to fit into our normal timing ...

In this Hack The Craft episode, Taylor digs deep into the importance of quickly setting up the readers mental movie with chapter openings and after narrative breaks. The podcast is split into two episodes to fit into our normal timing for the show,

In this week’s episode, we get caught up with Taylor’s publishing journey, and then into the topic of creating emotions in your readers. Thanks so much for joining us again this week! If you have questions or suggestions for future shows,

In this week’s program, Taylor shares her thoughts on how and when to reveal information in your stories.  As she puts it, “Story sense really is a revealing of information and the timing of that reveal. Things mentioned on this show: The Mackenzie Aug...

In this week’s show, we discuss the lengthy delay between shows, and how the writing life can so often feel like failure when the reality is that if you keep putting one foot in front of the other, you’re in the process of accomplishing your writing go...

In today’s show, Taylor shares her thoughts on character growth over the course of a multi-book series as a way of answering Steve’s question on his current work in process. As a note, we’ll be taking the next two weeks off so that Taylor can focus exc...

In this week’s show, author and listener Jessie Garcia joins us to share her experience with writing, producing and narrating her audiobook, Death At The Dog Park, released as an audio exclusive in late December 2018.

In this week’s show, we discuss the value of the Wandering Mind to the writing process, and how the busyness of life can eliminate the wandering and force us to think on the page. Taylor discusses how changes in her own life have forced her to find new...

In this week’s episode, Taylor shares a problem that she’s had for the past week or so with the way two of her point of view characters interacted in a scene.  She explains the source of the issue and a simple solution that solved the problem for her a...