Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation

It’s Writing Tip Time and we’re going to give you three fast and dirty writing tips today that’s going to make your writing more intense. Ready?  Think about your tense  What’s that mean? It means don’t be writing like things are happening now and then shift over to writing like things were happening in the … Continue reading "Three Hot Tips to Make Your Writing and Life Way More Intense in a Good Way – Dogs are Smarter Than People Writing Podcast"

Hey baby, what’s your back story?  It should be a pick-up line at a bar, yet it somehow is not a pick-up line at any bar that I know of except maybe in a New Yorker cartoon or a bar in a town where there’s one of those MFA programs in writing literature for literary people … Continue reading "Hey Baby, What’s Your Back Story and why we are running around so much"

Over on the random thought part of the podcast, we hear about Carrie being passive-aggressive at the campground bathroom, Shaun sing, and random people at Smokey’s Barbecue and Lobster. But here is the more intellectual stuff. Um. Slightly more intellectual stuff? This guy Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book Outliers and in it he outlines his belief that … Continue reading "Passive Aggressive Much? And How to Become More Awesome in Just 30 Minutes a Day"

As you heard in our random thought, this week we went to see some early 1990s bands in concert. They were – well, they were old. The concert hall wasn’t even half full.  That sounds depressing, right?  It wasn’t. One of the lead singers has had cancer three times. His wife has had it once. … Continue reading "Old Rockers Rocking and Trust Issues"

So, a long time ago Carrie had a dog named Scotty, and she used to fill in at the police department as a dispatcher. For those of you who don’t know, she dispatched part-time because even though she made enough money writing (right then) she got worried that: Carrie’s Worries 1. I will suddenly make … Continue reading "When Good Dogs Go Bad"

It’s a lot like life honestly. Here’s the number one hint. Wait forever to start writing. Don’t wait to start. Don’t expect lightening to strike or a muse to come down from the heavens. Just write. Call it practice if ‘writing a novel’ seems too big a task. Trick your mind into being chill about … Continue reading "How Not to Write Your Novel"

People, you have got to get your butts out of the chair, or the bed, or whatever. Seriously. Your butt is breaking! Sorry Dying. Your butt is dying! According to a Huffington Post article by Nicole Pajer, “Americans are sitting so long that their butts are literally falling asleep. “Dead butt syndrome,” or gluteal amnesia, … Continue reading "Dead Butt Syndrome"

Sometimes us writer people feel broken. We maybe got rejected one too many times. We maybe got a horrifying review. We maybe are stuck on Chapter 7560 in our epic fantasy WHEN THE BUNNY OF DOOM FELL IN LOVE WITH THE HAMSTER OF GLORIOUS GLORY.  This is normal. Creative people have a lot of big … Continue reading "Big Feelings and Dropping Your Child in the Woods"

What to do when your book launches. I don’t know.  Seriously. Some writers get tattoos, a piece of jewelry, a new charm for a charm bracelet. Some hold book release parties. Some go out to dinner.  As you’ll hear, Carrie did none of those things. Instead, she ran, made a whiny video from the campground … Continue reading "Taco Bell Leaks, Rainbow Unicorn Golf Carts and How to Spend Your Book Release Day"

a Rafflecopter giveaway So, two weeks ago the podcast featured poop texting and writing, but somehow only our random thought was uploaded and not the full broadcast. Carrie feels this may have been her mother refusing to allow such things be out in the open. She raised Carrie better than this, honestly. No decent woman … Continue reading "Poop Texting Fail"