The Taylor Stevens Show

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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TSS087: Calming the Chaos: how to keep your reader anchored within confusing scenes.


Scenes that involve more than two characters can be unforgiving in a way that those with only one or two are not. This is amplified when multiple characters are thrown into chaos. The more characters and the greater the chaos,


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 March 21, 2017  40m
 
 

TSS086: Reworking Fiction: Line Editing Exercise, Part II


What I’m going for is maximum clarity and the least amount of grit, and I felt that putting that in there added grit, so I just took it out. — Taylor This week show is part two of our line editing challenge.   A long time listener,


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 March 14, 2017  33m
 
 

TSS085: How to Rework Your Fiction: A Line Edit Exercise


This week show brings a fun and interesting challenge.  A long time listener, who we’re calling Bob, sent in some material.  But instead of offering corrections, this week Taylor just points out what can be corrected,


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 March 7, 2017  32m
 
 

TSS084: Going through the Edit Notes and More on Anchoring Your Reader


There was a lot of mental mapping, trying to piece together the puzzle and how it fit.  And, the danger as a writer, when you’re doing that, is that you can overload the reader with too much information. —— Taylor In this episode,


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 February 28, 2017  43m
 
 

TSS083: Hack the Craft to Write Better Fiction


“You inform the reader, at the place where it’s necessary for them to know this thing, to be on the same page, no pun intended.” — Taylor In this episode, we discuss some notes that Taylor provided to Steve on a new series he’s writing and she includes...


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 February 21, 2017  41m
 
 

TSS082: How to Manage the Flow of Action in your Fiction


I do so much of this just on instinct, it’s sort of like a storyteller child that’s like how can I keep this exciting, how can I make this worse. —– Taylor The topic of this week’s show comes from David, who who asks: Hi,


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 February 14, 2017  24m
 
 

TSS081: Why do we Procrastinate as Authors?


I get so upset with myself, why? Why do I do this? I know it’s counter-productive, it is not getting me where I need to go in life. When I’m struggling with things that are important it’s the hardest. Why? Why do I do this? — Taylor   In today’s show,


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 February 7, 2017  23m
 
 

TSS080: The Best and Worst Advice You’ve Received about Writing


We closed TSS078, Tips on Filtering the Flood of Writing Advice Available to Authors with a request for the best and worst advice you’d ever received as an author.  The results of that request were so interesting,


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 January 31, 2017  28m
 
 

TSS079: Do You Have a Manifesto for your Writing?


I won’t do that to my readers, the cheap, easy way out. Everything has to make sense, everything has to tie together, everything has to have an emotional component and impact because that is what makes a book captivating. — Taylor In this week’s show,


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 January 24, 2017  25m
 
 

TSS078: Tips on Filtering the Flood of Writing Advice Available to Authors


… earlier on in your career, you ask somebody for technical advice, or a question about a character, or anything like that, just because someone gives you the information, doesn’t mean you now have to need to change what you’re doing to follow it.


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 January 17, 2017  26m