Paul Sating3 minOne Year, Eight BooksWhen you aren't smart enough to know when enough is enough. This Indie author gig can be demanding (if you allow it and/or position...
Paul Sating4 minNew Year, New Project - And It SucksFact: writing is hard. Fact: I hate my writing. Fact: I started liking it during one of the first Zodiac books (probably The Gemini...
Paul Sating2 minAmbition > MediocrityBLUF: Writer Toxicity Not to end the week on a down note, buuuuut.... No, seriously, I hope this empowers you to act if you find yourself...
Paul Sating1 minInterview on Alive After Reading PodcastI recently did an interview with friend and fellow author Tim Neiderriter on his podcast Alive After Reading. We had an excellent...
Paul Sating3 minWe Decide the Time to Live and Time to Die for Our WritingBLUF: Jim Rohn was right. Motivational speaker Jim Rohn famously said we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with....
Paul Sating2 min2019 Look Back & A 2020 Vision For the FutureWhat a year! Achilles tears. Unemployment. Only two books published, one shy of my original goal. Yet, I survived and I'm very excited...
Paul Sating1 minWriting Structure: The Not-So-Sexy Key to Hitting Writing GoalsBLUF: All About Structure If you're serious about publishing, you need structure in your writing life. Here's a brief outline of what my...
Paul Sating6 min2-Failures-For-Each-Success: A Timely Lesson in Not QuittingThis weekend I went to a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fight night in Tacoma … and was pulled back from the edge of giving up on writing. Me?...
Paul Sating28 minHow An Editor Almost Cost Me My Career With Author Peter Orullian - Transcript for Ep 102 of Horribl(Transcription services provided by Renzee Lee. See contact info at the end of the interview for pricing information.) Welcome to...
Paul Sating15 minJust Write the Book - Horrible Writing Episode 101 Transcript(This is a transcript for episode 101 of the Horrible Writing Podcast, which you can find wherever you listen to podcasts.) So there's no...
Paul Sating38 minBelieve In Yourself - 100 Episodes of Epic, Horrible Writing Podcast Episode 100 TranscriptTriple digits baby. One hundred epic episodes of Horrible Writing. Whoever would have thought this would have worked out like this. I've...
Paul Sating11 minChoosing POV - Horrible Writing Podcast Transcript for Episode 99First Person; second person; third person; omniscient; third person close: POV and the choice and when to make it - why to make it. This...
Paul Sating13 minWhat Do Preachers, Politicians, and Advertisers Have That We Need?Politicians, preachers, and advertisers are great storytellers. They enrapture, enrapture, enrapture. What do they have that we don't?...
Paul Sating10 minSo You Had A Bad Day? Horrible Writing Podcast Ep 97 TranscriptionI'm actually supposed to be writing, not talking to you. So why are you hearing me? Let's talk about that in this episode of Horrible...
Paul Sating1 minThe Stories We Tell Podcast Story Winners - May 2019It's time to announce the next set of stories selected for an upcoming episode of The Stories We Tell podcast! As always, the wonderful...
Paul Sating1 minThe Stories We Tell Podcast Story Winners - April 2019It's time to announce the next set of stories selected for an upcoming episode of The Stories We Tell podcast! As always, the wonderful...
Paul Sating11 minFear & Writing: Get Over It AlreadyEarlier today while driving on the freeway, a black BMW passed me on the left. Out of the sunroof popped a young lady, no older than 17,...
Paul Sating2 minThe Stories We Tell Podcast Story Winners - March 2019It's time to announce the next set of stories selected for an upcoming episode of The Stories We Tell podcast! As always, the wonderful...
Paul Sating2 minDon't Buy The LieI've hit 200,000 words before April! I've got the highest word-count goal for the year I've ever set for myself. I'm driven. All my life,...
Paul Sating7 minWhy I’m Walking Away From Audio Drama (Sort Of): A Case Study For Artists In Exhaustion and DisenfraHot summer days are miserable. But they’re not as bad as the unbearable cold of a long winter. Those days can be exhausting. And the...