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One of my grandmothers painted and wrote poems when she wasn’t busy raising her three children. This is one of her poems. Grammy Barnard Poem #3 MELANCHOLY, MAY 19, 1927 Cold and dark desolation’s arm...

19 Sep 20221min

Hey! Join us tis week as we talk about writing exceptional characters starting with backstory! It’s quick. It’ll make you a better author. It’s free. Hey, thanks for listening to Write Better Now. Th...

14 Sep 20226min

W. Edwards wrote “Drive out fear so that everyone may work effectively for the company.” Paul Zak says, “When learners are psychologically safe, they acquire new information easily because they have t...

13 Sep 202218min

A poem. The music you hear is made available through the creative commons and it’s a bit of a shortened track from the fantastic Eric Van der Westen and the track is called “A Feather” and off the al...

12 Sep 20221min

It’s the last in our three-week series on scene and structure the Dwight Swain way. Let’s go. Like we said in the first week, Swain makes us writers think of basic elemental structure and creating our...

7 Sep 20224min

This week’s podcast is all about Belgian psychologist Ester Perel who has two great podcasts and talks all about relationships and sex and you know, the stuff that gets us an explicit rating. Listen i...

6 Sep 202217min

“FINDING THE STORIES” What does it mean to find story when you are the one who is oppressed? What does it mean to find story when you are the one who is barely surviving in your own life? When your mo...

5 Sep 20223min

So last week on the podcast and on our blog where we elaborated a bit, we talked about the four main elements of story structure according to Dwight Swain, who wrote The Techniques of the Selling Writ...

31 Aug 20225min