Ride Hard. Seven Tips for Aspiring Writers

Tips for Aspiring Writers? Everyone gives them. But these are the essentials that were inspired by a hot-wings induced stupor. Shaun doesn't believe you can get drunk off hot sauce, but I'm here to tell you that I (Carrie) can.

Seven Tips for Aspiring Writers

1. Write your ideas down anywhere and everywhere. Don’t think that you’ll remember the amazing ideas you got while in a half-drunken stupor from too many Buffalo wings. Have a notebook or notes file on your phone. Write that stuff down.
2. Ride hard for books. Not just your own books but other people’s too.
3. Wait. That’s not good enough. Ride hard for words. Fall in love with them.
4. Remember all stories have a beginning, a middle and an end where people (or hamsters or whatever) ride hard for something and there are obstacles blocking their way to get that something.
5. Remember all stories have characters who have external wants (a good hot wing) and internal desire (to be admired for devouring that damn hot wing without doing a Will Ferrell and crying).
6. Study people. Write people. Not card-board cut-outs. Don’t make your story an Instagram filter. Show people the quirks, the dirt, the torn hems on your skirt.
7. Write. You aspire to write? Do it, my friend. Don’t just aspire. Do.

Writing Tip of the Pod:

If you want to write books, study people, study books, and experience as much as you can experience so you can use everything you do, see, and feel to communicate that to others.

Dog Tip for Life: `

Channel your inner Yoda. There is no try. Just do.

Or channel your inner Nike ad. Just do it.

Don’t aspire.

Work towards it. You’ve got it.

SHOUT OUT

The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what is this song? It’s “Night Owl” by Broke For Free.

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Big News!

I just published a super cool adult novel. Gasp! I know! Adult! That’s so …. grown-up? It's called THE PLACES WE HIDE and it's super fun. It's got death, strong women, strong men, falling in love, firefighters, cops and a Maine blizzard.

You can order it here. Please, please, order it.