Words to Write by
Week 4: The Morning Pages Report
Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s WayWeek Four: Recovering A Sense of Integrity Do Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages work? Specifically, do they work for us? We begin this podcast by discussing...
Week 3: The Pushback
Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s WayWeek Three: Recovering a Sense of Power Should you use anger to fuel your writing? Do you experience shame while creating art? Have you been...
Week 2: External Blockers (and Internal Doubts)
Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s WayWeek Two: Recovering a Sense of Identity We’re on Week 2 of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, shifting from internal creative obstacles to external ones—namely...
Week One of the Artists Way
Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s WayWeek One: Recovering a Sense of Safety What if the real barrier to making art isn’t talent or time, but whether you feel safe enough...
The Morning Pages Experiment
Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s WayThe Basic Tools Three pages. Every morning. No exceptions. No mercy. We’re going to unblock our inner artist using Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. For...
Starting the Artist’s Way (Send Help)
Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s WaySpiritual Electricity:The Basic Principles Over the past few months, we’ve taken a deep dive into AI writing tools. Now we’re coming up for air and...
Robot Reporters Need Not Apply: A Journalist’s Stand
Authors & AI SeriesRobot Reporters Need Not Apply:A Journalist’s Stand We’ve been looking at how AI chatbots have been upending fiction writing, but how about in news media? Today...
Teaching Kids to Write in the Age of ChatGPT
Authors & AI SeriesTeaching Kids to Write in the Age of ChatGPT What if chatbots result in the next generation never learning to write? It’s a doomsday scenario that...
AI and Your Manuscript: Editor Kristen Tate’s Honest Take
In our quest to cover the mind-blowing benefits AND the nightmare scenarios that AI chatbots are unleashing on the writing world, we called in friend-of-the-podcast and editor Kristen Tate...
What’s Really Happening When AI Writes? An Interview with Bill Moore
We've been putting AI chatbots through creative writing challenges, but what are these systems actually doing when they write? In this episode, we bring in AI expert Bill Moore. Bill...
Not Your Usual Words to Write By: The AI Podcasting Challenge
Is nothing sacred? After exploring how AI might steal our writing jobs, we're now testing whether these digital usurpers can replicate our podcasting chemistry too. Google's NotebookLM claims to...
AI & Authorship: Where’s the Line?
We've explored AI as brainstorming allies, critique partners, and research assistants. Now we're tackling the most contentious question: should writers use AI in the actual writing process? Not the...
Beyond the Book: AI Solutions for Author Marketing
Can AI truly enhance your creativity without taking over? Our previous episodes left us wondering, but in this episode of “Words to Write by,” we interview educator Kate Scott...
Harnessing AI Without Losing Your Voice: A Talk with Kate Scott
Can AI truly enhance your creativity without taking over? Our previous episodes left us wondering, but in this episode of “Words to Write by,” we interview educator Kate Scott...
Brave New Feedback: When your Critique Partner is a Chatbot
Submitting work to your first workshop or critique group is nerve-wracking – these aren’t your supportive friends or family, but strangers with opinions. Yet honest feedback is the lifeblood...
Brainstorming with Bots: The Ethics of AI-Assisted Creativity
Can writers harness AI ethically without surrendering the soul of their craft? In our provocative new mini-series, we’re not just theorizing about AI’s role in creative writing—we’re putting it...
The Writer’s Last Journey: Heroes, AI, and the Future of Writing
In this episode, we’re finally putting the Hero’s Journey to rest and bidding farewell to Christopher Vogler’s “The Writer’s Journey.” And by “putting to rest,” we mean cramming the...
Getting to the Climax: The Anatomy of Romance Novels with Lia Riley
An Interview with Lia Riley Check it Out: The Hero’s Journey Study Guide Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey insists all stories follow the Hero’s Journey template—but does this actually...
End of the Road: The Last Two Stages of the Hero’s Journey
Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s JourneyStage Eleven: The Resurrection&Stage Twelve: Return with the Elixir Check it Out: The Hero’s Journey Study Guide Just when you thought you had the Hero’s...
Writing the Return Home: More Than Just a Victory Lap
Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s JourneyStage 9: RewardStage 10: The Road Home Check it Out: The Hero’s Journey Study Guide Subscribe to our Newsletter Remember family road trips? When you’re...
What We're Reading
Zen and the Art of Writing
Bradbury…(yes, that Bradbury!) wrote a writing craft book. Together, we’ll test his promise to “release the creative genius within you.” Join us as we pick apart the process (and–dare we say– hubris) of this lovable sci-fi author as he tells us what to do, but not always how to do it. Stay tuned!
Bird by Bird
We know you own it. But have you read it? Like really, really read it? It’s time to crack that spine and delve into the depths of your perfectionism, mental hang ups, and neuroses and get that butt in the chair. At least, a writer can dream, can’t she?
The Writer's Journey
Does a plot formula a good novel make? Let’s find out! You know it by many names: The Hero’s Journey; The Monomyth theory; Jungian Archetypes, etc. But Vogler deliver on his promise? By the end of this book, will you, too, be able to write a plot and craft well rounded characters everyone will love? Only one way to find out (sans reading). Good thing you have us. Right, Dear Listener?
Authors & AI
Oh Snap, we’re tackling the beast that is AI HEAD ON! No covering your eyes! No head in the sand! We’re going to look this beast in the eye and tell it who’s boss. . .unless we’re not the boss. Wait? Whose in charge here?
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Starting the Artist’s Way (Send Help)