S37E5 – You Should Publicly Respond to Criticism of Your Books
Responding to critics, especially in a public forum, is one of the fastest ways to get people to remember you in all the wrong ways. While this piece of advice isn’t one people often say, it is one sh...
17 Nov 202211min
S37E4 – Other Authors are Your Competition
Few things are more damaging to the writing community than this thought. Other authors are your competition. Not only is that incorrect, it creates unnecessary animosity in place of a supportive syste...
14 Nov 202211min
S37E3 – Don’t Write Dark Things, It Just Glorifies Them
One piece of common bad advice we see among authors is the suggestion that by writing detailed dark topics, the author is glorifying it. They suggest that writing racist characters must mean the autho...
10 Nov 202210min
S37E2 – If You’re Good Enough, You Don’t Need a Second Draft
There are few pieces of advise worse than this one. There is a misconception that to be a truly good author, you don’t need a second draft, that your first draft will be perfect and ready for publishi...
7 Nov 202210min
S37E1 – You Should Only Write When You’re Inspired
Writers get bad advice all of the time. Often, it’s the same pieces of bad advice heard again and again and again. Why, though? If it’s bad, why do so many people still repeat the same old refrains? M...
3 Nov 202211min
S36E9 – Dark Psychology: Supernatural Curses
Supernatural curses have been a large part of storytelling for centuries, if not millennia. Many of us grew up on tales of curses because of Disney movies. They’re also present in tales like The Mummy...
31 Okt 202211min
S36 Bonus – The Dark Triad: Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism
Researchers in 2002 coined the phrase The Dark Triad to describe three main personality traits that share often malevolent aspects: psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism. Those with two or thr...
29 Okt 202238min
S36E8 – Dark Psychology: Writing Realistic Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), while not understood well in the world of psychology, has been explored in fiction for a long time. Formerly known as multiple personality disorder, DID is a ment...
27 Okt 202211min
