MAKING THINGS SIZZLE – HOW DO YOU MAKE CHEMISTRY HAPPEN BETWEEN CHARACTERS
Want to make your characters sizzle like a fajita plate? Join us as we quickly give some steps about building character chemistry on the page. More tips and the transcript are over at Carrie Jones Boo...
10 Aug 20228min
Brad Pitt in a Skirt and Mixing Things Up in Your Relationships To Make Them Last
One of the key components of happiness and living a good life is having a good close relationship with someone else and for a lot of us, our closest relationship is with our spouse. Cough. So join us...
9 Aug 202217min
Character Development and Novel Structures are Creepy Besties. Here's why.
NOVEL STRUCTURE AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT ARE RELATED. Not just that, they are creepy best friends. You know the kind. They do EVERYTHING together, drink the same soy-caramel latte, have the same crus...
3 Aug 20225min
Are you a cheerleading mutant?
Cheerleading mutant. It sounds pretty awful, but it’s actually a good thing. Because that optimism and gratitude help make your brain healthier and life better. That gives you the sort of cheerleading...
2 Aug 202217min
spoiler: the sandwich is an objective correlative
A poem about being not poet-cool. Hey, thanks for listening to Carrie Does Poems. These podcasts and more writing tips are at Carrie’s website, carriejonesbooks.blog. There’s also a donation button t...
1 Aug 20221min
WTF EVEN IS A SCENE
A scene. Let's have a quick rundown about it and why you need to know about this bad boy. It’s this element of structure for the story. We all write them, but sometimes it seems like this overlooked...
27 Jul 20225min
Sometimes a robot breaks your finger how to live happy anyway
In possibly the goofiest self-help podcast ever, we continue our bizarre ways with some advice from the Dalai Lama about how to live happy despite everything and also talk a bit about the robot who br...
26 Jul 202217min
PROS AND CONS OF PRESENT AND PAST TENSE
Hey! It's a quick rundown on the positives and negatives of writing in past or present tense. For the complete notes, check out the blog. Hey, thanks for listening to Write Better Now. These podca...
20 Jul 20229min
