Write through the Wilderness with Kathrin Classen
Write through the Wilderness offers encouragement to any writer who finds themselves lost in the wilderness of writing, publishing, and self-doubt without a map.
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Write Time For Healing with author David Deane Haskell (opens the original)
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The incredible thing about stories is that they allow us to process the now and create hope for the future. In this episode, we aren’t only discussing teaching, drafting, or the commercial side of writing. David Deane Haskell talks about writing as a tool for healing and connecting with others. He’s very open about his experiences, and we discuss how writing helped him.In his memoir, David chronicles his healing journey. Trauma never leaves us, and it can come in waves, but when you do the work–
Celebrate Your Unedited Self with Writer and Teacher Sara Bednark (opens the original)
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In this episode, I interview writer and teacher Sara Bednark. We discuss how she, as a teacher, finds ways to encourage people to write and grow in their craft and helps them embrace their unedited self. We also talk about what it means to do the verb so you can be the noun.There are so many things that stop us from writing: our own lack of confidence, our own negative thoughts, or the words of others. As we understand our needs as writers, in whatever stage we are in, we can start to understand
Complex Characters and Realistic Consequences with Author Neal Lipschutz (opens the original)
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Stories allow us to ask the big questions about what we would do if we were in tough situations. In Neal Lipschutz’s book, No Write Way to Die, we are asked how far we are willing to go to protect the people we love. Neal created a genuine feel to his novel by using elements with which he was familiar and not shying away from realistic consequences for his character’s ethically questionable decisions.In this episode, we talk about how our characters should be multidimensional, as close to human
Think Like A Journalist with Writer Michael Fitzgerald (opens the original)
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From newspaper columns to the rush of wire services to breaking down barriers with informative fiction, Michael Fitzgerald and I talk about how our words have power. We as writers have the responsibility to do our research and get the facts right.Not only that, this episode will remind you that your voice matters, but you have to speak up to create change. Be brave, do your research, have a strategic plan, and remember that it will take time. Change doesn’t happen overnight.And how you measure s
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