Attacking Seagulls, Mr. Taco and New Year? New Writer You?
This week on the podcast we talk about:Mr. Taco, Attacking Seagulls, Doing the Raccoons, and Goals. Also, Shaun sings. So it’s the New Year and as we all know it’s all about goals and looking back and...
31 Des 201921min
Subordinate Me, Santa Claus
Subordinate clauses are baby clauses that can’t stand all by themselves as complete thoughts and they demand a certain kind of punctuation – or lack of punctuation. Here are examples: If I can find Sa...
24 Des 201927min
Santa, what are your eyebrows doing? Telling Details, Christmas Parties and Taco Bell Smells.
The Magic of The Eyebrow and Telling Details What is this thing? This telling detail? It’s a phrase or an image or a word that illustrates something about a character. It’s pretty exact. It’s a magica...
17 Des 201923min
Are You A Drama Queen or a Melodrama Queen
At its most basic a story’s components are these – a beginning, a middle, an end. The beginning is the situation or set up. The middle are the complications. The end is the resolution. Our lives are l...
10 Des 201921min
Florida Man and the Queen of Kittens - Writing With Yearning
Stories are about people having emotions. Writers who write from their heads (outlining like crazy, etc,) are often missing out on the emotion because they are analyzing how to show emotion. But it’s ...
3 Des 201918min
Road Rage When North Meets South
This week? Well, our podcast is not our normal format because we’ve been in the car for… um… Okay? Forty-eight hours? Apologies! So, this week we drove from Maine to Vermont to Maine to North Carolina...
26 Nov 201923min
Dog Poop and Shame
When people look at our dog Gabby, they almost always say, “Oh, she’s so beautiful.” Gabby, however, isn’t beautiful by breed standards. She’s actually a mess. Her muzzle isn’t boxy enough. Her back s...
20 Nov 201922min
Yo! We're High Concept
So there’s a quick and easy way to figure out who you are and who you want to be, but also figure out what your book is and what it wants to be. It’s called the high concept. It’s the dramatic questio...
12 Nov 201923min
