Do you know a writer who needs more distractions? Then point them here. We’re glad to help! Episode 171 has us home after twenty days and 7500+ miles on the road. We’re doing a bonus podcast to give our quick impressions of our writers research trip: -What we expected versus what we saw.-What we sawContinue reading “Home Again”
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California
Episode 164: We’re back from our first trip as a retired couple, and we use the podcast to talk about travel as a metaphor for change, maturity, and aging. Often, we’re made uncomfortable by traveling to familiar places only to find they’ve changed a lot. That happens when you get to a certain age. WeContinue reading “California”
Ennui
Episode 158: Our “word of the day” podcast theme continues with one of CC’s favorites: “ennui.” Everybody deals with it at sometime in their lives, but creative artists seem to wrestle with ennui like Heracles beating down Antaeus (google it, kids). We talk about our own struggles and come up with some hopefully helpful ideas.Continue reading “Ennui”
Genre vs. Dichotomy
Episode 157: There are writers who can stay in their lane, and there are writers who jump from murder thrillers to space epics. The surest path to success for independent writers seems to be write and publish “predictable” books, so why can’t every author stick to this tried and true formula? We naturally use UncleContinue reading “Genre vs. Dichotomy”
Implausible
It’s Super Bowl Sunday and Valentine’s Day week. For episode 156, we finally give in and hopelessly (or hopefully) pander for clicks by diving head first into the Taylor-Travis romance of the century (we obviously have no self respect). But we do things a little different here. We debate on the plausibility of their relationship,Continue reading “Implausible”
Romancing Your Writing
Episode 154 is about the passion in writing a romance book…or writing romance in your book. What’s the difference? We discuss how we were “programmed” from an early age and by society to write our respective flavors of romantic novels. We spoil “Romancing the Stone,” “The Lost City,” and the Marvel Universe movies. Also: shortContinue reading “Romancing Your Writing”