Boxers or Briefs or Commando How to Live a Literary Life
Carrie has been working on the Write Submit Support Class that she's doing with the Writing Barn and the whole class is about creating a writing community and supporting each other, right? And one of...
22 Jan 201921min
Beer Fest is Not the Question. Beer Fest is the Answer. BONUS EPISODE!
So, Shaun and I made a bonus podcast at yesterday's Fourth Annual Bar Harbor Winter Beer Fest. Yes, you heard that right. We basically battled ridiculously cold temperatures the day before a giant sto...
20 Jan 201927min
How to Be Happier Writers, Dogs, and People and A Little Talk about Cat Butts
How can we make our organizations and ourselves happy? We talk about this ALL THE TIME in our house. To be fair we also talk about expelling gas out the rectum and cookie recipes, but happiness gets ...
15 Jan 201920min
Golden Globes, Black-Eyed-Peas with Cauliflower And How Writers Make No Money and That Sucks
A recent study by the Authors Guild basically says that if you want to be a writer, prepare to be poor. In 2017, full-time writers made a median salary of around $20k. That’s full-time writers. In th...
8 Jan 201921min
Avoiding the New Year's Suck - Dogs Are Smarter Than People Podcast
Okay. Okay. I know we always try to be positive because we are positive people. Cough. But New Years? It's a little frustrating. That's because it's all about goals and new starts. And you know, every...
31 Dec 201819min
It's Christmas OMFG - Dogs are Smarter Than People PODCAST
So, because Christmas is on the same day as the podcast release and we weren't - cough - super organized, we're sharing with you our day before Christmas. What? Are there writing tips? Nah. Not reall...
25 Dec 201820min
Stake the Stakeholders and Be Your Own Voice in Determing Your Successes
Yesterday on her blog, Carrie talked about how feeling successful in your career or life is really tied to having your personal values resonate in your occupation, and being guided by those same core ...
18 Dec 201822min
A Story Is About More than Mechanics and Grammar And Carrie Gets Tipsy By Accident
Too often we really focus only on the mechanics of story. Writers and student-writers are told to make perfect sentences, understand the use of the semi-colon, and to spell words correctly. “Do not t...
11 Dec 201817min
