Episode 36: Writing great dialogue can be one of the biggest challenges a writer faces. Today we explore a technique[…]
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VIDEO: Real-Time Revision 28: Using a Three-Column Chart to Improve Sentence Fluency
This week we’re exploring how a simple three-column chart can help increase your sentence fluency and word choice, making your[…]
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Episode 31: What is “Confirmation Bias” and How Can We Use It To Our Advantage as Writers?
Episode 31: Today we’re exploring a concept called “confirmation bias” and how we can use it to influence readers, agents,[…]
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VIDEO: Real-Time Revision 27 – Demystifying Colons and Semicolons
Today we’ll look at a different way of thinking about colons and semicolons that helps a lot of writers FINALLY[…]
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Episode 30: Everything is an Argument (and How Knowing That Will Make You a Better Writer)
Episode 30: Today we’re exploring a technique of looking at the world from a new perspective that will result in[…]
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VIDEO: Real-Time Revision 26 – A Deep Dive into Scene Revision using “Story Grid” Techniques
This week I’m deep into analyzing and reconstructing each scene of my initial draft so that it’s working in tandem[…]
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Episode 29: What is “Theme” and How Can We Use it to Engage Our Readers?
Today we’re tackling one of the most misunderstood, but vital, elements of writing fiction. Today is all about “theme.” What[…]
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VIDEO: Real-Time Revision 25 – What is Theme and How to Explore It in Your Writing
The concept of “theme” is, for whatever reason, one of the hardest writing elements to understand. In today’s Real-Time Revision,[…]
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Episode 28: How to Deal With Writer’s Block… and Does it Really Exist?
In today’s show, we’re exploring the writer’s nemesis: writer’s block. What is it? Where does it come from? And how[…]
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VIDEO: Writer’s Room 4 – OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Every month, one podcast listener’s manuscript is chosen for a free 2-3 page critique and review! It’s a great chance[…]
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