Kat and Leah give a brief overview of financial management and what they need to consider as they budget for their lives as writers.

In this episode, the Beacons talk about writing friendships and why they can be an important part of your writing life. 

National Novel Writing Month is just around the corner in November! Kat and Leah love writing marathons and talk a little about what they start to think about as they ready themselves for writing a book during Nano.

When do you cut deep and when do you pull back? Kat and Leah talk about writing the hard subjects that sometimes come from our own histories and experiences and how to handle them as writers.

A writer can struggle to tell their stories, but part of that struggle is writing, writing, writing and then not having anything published to show for all that work. In this episode, the Beacons discuss what it feels like and what to do when publication doesn't happen. 

Sometimes writers know their genre intuitively and others have a winding road to their niche. In this episode, Kat and Leah talk about how they found their genres and offer some tips and tricks to finding yours. 

On today's episode, Kat and Leah talk about how their approaches to time management have shifted as they move into the summer months.

Kat and Leah talk about the books they've been reading the last couple of years and how they decide what books to read. 

Today, Kat and Leah talk about their writing process and how it's changed since their debut episode earlier in the year.

In an episode that, as Kat says, "cuts close to the bone," the Beacons go over the different ways our writing lives are sabotaged.