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New Year, New Project - And It Sucks
Fact: writing is hard. Fact: I hate my writing. Fact: I started liking it during one of the first Zodiac books (probably The Gemini...
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Ambition > Mediocrity
BLUF: 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...
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Interview on Alive After Reading Podcast
I recently did an interview with friend and fellow author Tim Neiderriter on his podcast Alive After Reading. We had an excellent...
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We Decide the Time to Live and Time to Die for Our Writing
BLUF: Jim Rohn was right. Motivational speaker Jim Rohn famously said we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with....
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2019 Look Back & A 2020 Vision For the Future
What a year! Achilles tears. Unemployment. Only two books published, one shy of my original goal. Yet, I survived and I'm very excited...
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Writing Structure: The Not-So-Sexy Key to Hitting Writing Goals
BLUF: All About Structure If you're serious about publishing, you need structure in your writing life. Here's a brief outline of what my...
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2-Failures-For-Each-Success: A Timely Lesson in Not Quitting
This 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?...
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How 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...
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Just 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...
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Believe In Yourself - 100 Episodes of Epic, Horrible Writing Podcast Episode 100 Transcript
Triple digits baby. One hundred epic episodes of Horrible Writing. Whoever would have thought this would have worked out like this. I've...
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Choosing POV - Horrible Writing Podcast Transcript for Episode 99
First Person; second person; third person; omniscient; third person close: POV and the choice and when to make it - why to make it. This...
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What 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?...
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So You Had A Bad Day? Horrible Writing Podcast Ep 97 Transcription
I'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...
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The Stories We Tell Podcast Story Winners - May 2019
It's time to announce the next set of stories selected for an upcoming episode of The Stories We Tell podcast! As always, the wonderful...
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The Stories We Tell Podcast Story Winners - April 2019
It's time to announce the next set of stories selected for an upcoming episode of The Stories We Tell podcast! As always, the wonderful...
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Fear & Writing: Get Over It Already
Earlier 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,...
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The Stories We Tell Podcast Story Winners - March 2019
It's time to announce the next set of stories selected for an upcoming episode of The Stories We Tell podcast! As always, the wonderful...
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Don't Buy The Lie
I'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,...
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Why I’m Walking Away From Audio Drama (Sort Of): A Case Study For Artists In Exhaustion and Disenfra
Hot 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...
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