Episode 133: Crafting "Excess" - Darius Stewart
For this talk, we - together, you and I, audience and speaker - will explore maximalist writing...
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Episode 133: Crafting "Excess" - Darius Stewart
For this talk, we - together, you and I, audience and speaker - will explore maximalist writing...
52:23
Episode 131: Prepping for Publication: How and Where to Submit Your Manuscripts - Kelly Dwyer
You've written and revised a novel, memoir, story, flash fiction, or poem, and now you want to...
43:35
Episode 130: Writing into (and out of) Trope, Cliche, and Abstraction - Anna Bruno
To borrow a cliche, let's go down the rabbit hole. But on the way down, let's observe the dirt,...
48:42
Episode 128: Poetry and Questions of Peace - Zach Savich
Is peace the absence of conflict or a state that can exist within conflict? How can writing...
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Episode 127: Writing the Elegy - Challenges and Approaches - Suzan Aizenberg
Most of us who write feel the need to remember our dead in elegies, memoir, or fiction, a task...
47:37
We often think about the tool of reflection in writing as a mode of thought or tone of voice we...
45:31
Episode 129: Refine Your Writing With Attention to Style - Sandra Scofield
However creative and brilliant you are, your work is evaluated (consciously or not) for its...
42:28
Episode 125: Better Talky Talky - The Art and Craft of Strong Dialogue - Kelly Dwyer
Many book editors and agents say that they read the first paragraph of a manuscript, and if they...
47:42
Episode 124: Notan - How Visual Art Informs Writing - Sandra Scofield
As a painter, I am constantly recognizing ideas about composition in art that speak directly to...
48:29
Episode 123: Writing From the Central Channel - Diana Goetsch
The “central channel,” a somatic and energetic space well-known for centuries in contemplative...
38:29
Episode 122: The Memory Curve and Transitions - Anna Bruno
The memory curve, on a most basic level, means the reader’s attention is highest at the...
42:20
Episode 121: Writing and the Power of Now - Mary Allen
"The present moment is all you have,” as author and spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle says, and...
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Episode 120: Revising Like a Hack - Screenwriting "Rules" as a Guide for Rewrites - Kerry Howley
No one wants your story, essay, or poem to read like Fast and the Furious 9. But Hollywood...
37:49
Episode 119: The Writing Life - Christine Hemp
We’re all voyeurs when it comes to the habits and practices of other writers. Do they churn out a...
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Episode 118: The Music of Language, the Language of Music - Sands Hall
Poets and songwriters utilize aspects of language that are essential for prose writers to know....
36:58
Episode 117: Writing About Family in Nonfiction - Mieke Eerkens
The most intimate, powerful, and fraught relationships in our lives are often with the limited...
29:42
Episode 116: Transforming Life Into Writing - Eric Goodman
Transforming life into writing is an individual process, as individual as the art we create....
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Episode 115: The Art of Humor Writing - Lyz Lenz
Chiaroscuro, in art, is a technique that uses bold contrasts of light and dark in painting to...
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Episode 114: Mixed Feelings - Lon Otto
In creative writing, truth isn’t everything, but emotional truth almost is. Whatever the genre,...
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Episode 112: Writing with Death Looking Over Your Shoulder - Lori Erickson
Death has haunted the work of countless authors. And even if we’re not writing about death...
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