In today’s episode, Angie and Elizabeth share 3 (or is it 7?) tips and tricks for using this summer (or any time you are in between routines) to be a productive writer. They discuss Elizabeth’s continued revisions and how to look at beginnings, as well as some finer details on Angie’s summer project of an improvised 24-hour feature film.

Lauren Goff

Thich Nhat Hanh

The Biggest Little Farm

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Educated by Tara Westover

Story Makers is a podcast that features in-depth conversations with accomplished writers, filmmakers and industry experts about story craft, technique, habit and survival--everything you need to know to stay inspired, connect to your creativity, find others’ wonderful stories and your own success.

The hosts:

Elizabeth Stark is a published, agented novelist and distributed filmmaker who teaches and mentors writers at BookWritingWorld.com.

Angie Powers is a distributed filmmaker and published short story writer with an MFA in creative writing and a certificate in screenwriting from UCLA who teaches story structure at BookWritingWorld.com.