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We’re on the last chapter of Judith Barrington’s book, Writing the Memoir, “Practical Advice on Critique Groups,” plus the dos and don’ts of giving and getting feedback. It’s practical...
Your memoir is about you (obviously) but it’s not just about you. In this episode we cover Judith Barrington’s chapter on how (and why) to bring events from the...
Writing Workshop with Kim & ReneeWriting th Memoir Subscribe to our Newsletter The Writing Workshop Exercise Map your Novel according to Vogler’s The Hero Journey. For this week’s workshop...
Judith Barrington’s Writing the MemoirChapter 8, 9, & Appendix Subscribe to our Newsletter Writing (and publishing) a memoir can be nerve wracking. What if the people you’re writing about...
Our Interview with Erik Harper Klass In this stand alone episode, we talk with Erik Klass, the entrepreneurial editor behind the submission service Submitit about what literary journals are...
Writing Workshop with Kim & ReneefromWriting the Memoir Subscribe to our Newsletter The Writing Workshop Exercise Find two or three short memoirs (short-story length as opposed to book length)...
Memoirs are rarely straight chronological narratives, what with the musing we talked about last episode, and they almost always jump forwards and backwards in time. We discuss Judith Barrington...
After last episode’s deep dive into scene structure, we thought we’d ask a few published novelists and professional editors...
If stories are made up of scenes, what are scenes made up of? According to Jack Bickham in his...
This episode is all about cause and effect, what it is, why it is critical in fiction despite being...
In this podcast we give our first impressions of our new book, Jack Bickham's Scene and Structure, and, being the...
In this episode we bid a fond farewell to Bradbury with one last conversation about his book, Zen in...
In this episode we dive into the final chapter of Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing, titled:...
In todays episode, Bradbury tells us how loathing Ireland pushed him to becoming a playwright/screenwriter, why these absurdest plays...
No one succeeds all by themselves, and that includes Ray Bradbury. In his book Zen in the Art of...
According to Bradbury’s retelling, it took him nine days, a library typewriter, and a pocketful of dimes to crank...
Oh Muse, well-spring of creativity, why are you so unreliable? How can we entice you? In this episode, we...
Ray Bradbury shares his secrets for how he wrote so many unforgettable short stories in the first two chapters...
Thinking of reading The Art of Fiction, "Young Writer?" Listen to this podcast first. Despite dying in a motorcycle...
Wow! We've gotten to the final chapter of John Gardner's book, The Art of Fiction and it's all about...
Gardner promises to show us the proper way for the young writer to achieve artistic mastery. Doesn’t that sound...
Enough with the theoretical, in this episode we get some practical advice out of Gardner's book, The Art of...
Mapping the Hero’s Journey
We’ve officially started our new book, Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey. And boy is there a lot in the first two chapters! First (or first after Kim’s rant) is an...