S11E9 – Best: Improving Your Writing to Achieve Your Best
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. – Robert Half
Writing Roots
S11 Bonus Episode – Read: How to Read as a Writer
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. – Samuel Johnson
S11E8 – Plan: Basics of Planning a Story from Start to Finish
I don’t plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn’t be a closed system – it’s a quest. – Kurt Vonnegut
S11E7 – Time: Maintaining Momentum Through a Story
Making sure that geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right. – Michael Scott
S11E6 – Edit: Why Editing is Essential for the Business of Publishing
Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear. – Patricia Fuller
S11E5 – Stop: Making the Decision to Abandon or Pause a Story
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney
S11E4 Extended – LGBT+: Further Discussion of Quality Representation of the LGBTQ+ Community in Writing
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. – Oscar Wilde
S11E4 – LGBT: Writing Quality Representation of the LGBTQ+ Community
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde
S11E3 – Kiss: Why and How to Include Romantic Subplots
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
S11E2 – Tell: How to Identify and Correct Cases of Telling
Books. It’s always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would’ve said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling. – Joyce Rachelle