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
TSS097: Considerations for Developing your Next Series
If you’re going to write something that’s very normal…and I don’t mean that disparagingly, just something that readers are familiar with, then the importance of creating the world in which those characters inhabit, is not as critical,
TSS096: Taylor’s Favorite Books on the Craft of Writing
I think an illusion, is that if you did every single thing in this book you would write a novel that’s a breakout novel and you will go on to the bestseller lists. And that’s simply not true. — Taylor In this episode,
TSS095: Should your Setting be Real or Imagined?
In writing a place and getting it accurate, you’re tasked with the challenge of capturing the essence of a location within sparse details and bringing that to life on the page. —- Taylor In this week’s show, Taylor,
TSS094: How to Use Foreshadowing Effectively in Your Work
When you’re foreshadowing something you want to have it earlier in the story and you also want it to be organic. — Taylor This week’s show opens with a discussion of Taylor’s plans for Thrillerfest in July,
TSS093: How Developing Character Depth Can Improve Your Story
Your character’s inner dialogue is like the mold, the form through which the story is shaped. —– Taylor This week’s show starts with a specific example of what can happen when story elements that are inside the author’s mind don’t make it onto the page...
TSS092: Writers Life: Juggling Multiple Projects
The creative process is excruciatingly difficult for me. It’s really hard for me to sit there and focus, so of course, I’m going to do anything possible to avoid it because it’s just hard. —– Taylor This week’s episode is about juggling the projects th...
TSS091: Consulting with Experts and Writing in Different Genres
I don’t consult experts, I do a lot of reading on the Internet because I’m not trying to teach somebody how to pick a lock. I need to know just enough about it to make sure that I’m not saying something stupid and then move on,
TSS090: How to Manage Non-Sequential Chronology in your Stories
You have a mostly chronological story, but the opening chapters are not the strongest or most interesting, but they are important, in which case a single chapter, or a couple of chapters in the beginning that are out of chronology and then moving on fr...
TSS089: Going from Concept to Story – A real time example
… I got to the end and I realized oh, somethings missing and as an author, you can go back and rewrite history in a way that everything fits. So, if you need something like that, you have that ability to go back and put it in.
TSS088: Calming the Chaos Part 2: Turning Chaos into Flow
That’s how, in writing, you turn chaos into flow. It cannot happen the same way that you would see it in your mind or on a movie screen. In writing, in order for it to make the proper movie it has to happen point by point by point,