S41E7 – Writing Emotions: Guilty and Apologetic
“You still blush too easily when confronted,” Jasnah noted.
“I’m sorry.”
“And apologize too easily as well.”
“I’m… uh, indignant?”
– The Stormlight Archive
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S41E2 – Writing Emotions: Courage
Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do. – C.S. Lewis; The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
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S39E7 – Understanding Psychic Distance for Your Writing
The remedy is to abandon the larger for the smaller… to do the small thing closely and deeply rather than the big thing loosely and superficially. – Colson Whitehead
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S38 Bonus – Who Are You?
Caterpillar: Who are you?
Alice: I hardly know, sir. Just at present – at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
– Alice in Wonderland
S38E9 – How Do I Make a Podcast?
Your podcast content should not be about you, but about solving your prospects’ problems. – Steve Lubetkin
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S38E6 – What Do I Do At a Live Author Event?
I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we’re connected. It’s great. – Judy Blume
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S38E1 – Does Taking a Break Mean I’m Not a Real Writer?
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer. – Steven Leigh
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S37E8 – It’s Published, It Must Be Good
Getting published is really exciting, but it’s not the point of writing. The actual writing is what it’s all about – the daily joy in sitting down to a blank page and crafting something beautiful or funny or heartwrenching or even just blah (depending on the day). – Bridget McNulty
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