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
TSS117: How Effective Anchoring Can Help Your Dialogue to Shine
Listener C.A. (Carol) Newsome is refreshing the first book in her Lia Anderson Dog Park Mystery Series, to try and bring the level of her craft up to that in the later books in the series. Carol send the prologue and some of the first chapter to Taylo...
TSS116: Bringing Your Characters to Life
Listener C.A. (Carol) Newsome is refreshing the first book in her Lia Anderson Dog Park Mystery Series, to try and bring the level of her craft up to that in the later books in the series. Carol send the prologue and some of the first chapter to Taylo...
TSS115: The Importance of Doing the Hard Work when Writing
In this week’s episode, we discuss the importance of doing the hard work that will make your writing standing out. The show uses some real examples from Steve’s WIP and provides the opportunity for Taylor to discuss how to use the three Vs (vivid,
TSS114: Using Empathy to Avoid Boring Dialogue in Your Fiction
In this week’s episode, we discuss some of Taylor’s pet peeves with regard to dialogue. How to avoid unnecessary dialogue, conversations that are too formal, and questions that are too pointed. Thanks so much for joining us again this week!
TSS113: Using Natural Disasters in Your Fiction – The Hurricane Edition
In this week’s abbreviated episode, we discuss the use of Natural Disaster’s in fiction as a way to drive tension, Taylor offers up a juicy hurricane-related plot, and we discuss the synopsis she’s preparing for book two in her new series.
TSS112: Using Character Traits to Bond Readers to Characters
In this episode, we talk transparency and then get into writing advice, discussing character traits or quirks and how they can bond readers to your characters. Thanks so much for joining us again this week!
TSS111: Showing Character Traits to Your Readers
In this week’s episode, Taylor walks us through several examples of how to quickly show readers the traits of some characters through movement, dialogue, self-talk, action and more. Thanks to author C.A. Newsome for providing the idea for today’s show...
TSS110: How Can I Break My Ever Expanding Novel into a Series?
This week we respond to this question, from author J.W. Benshoof, who wonders how to split a single novel that’s growing larger than anticipated, into a series that will still appeal to readers. Taylor points out several things J.W. should consider,
TSS109: Why Should a Reader Buy YOUR Book, Instead of Something Else?
In this week’s show, Taylor and Steve discuss the fungibility of books, and what Taylor has done to try and make her books less fungible to those who enjoy her work. Wikipedia defines fungibility as follows: In economics,
TSS108: A look behind the curtain at Taylor’s recent publishing decisions
In this week’s episode, we take a look behind the curtain, at the decision-making process Taylor went through before deciding how to publisher her next book. Things like writing style, speed, self-knowledge and the library market all played a part in ...