In this episode Amy Bell and M Irene interview J Scott Savage on the details of his worldbuilding process and how you can use worldbuilding, characters, and plot to really make a story come alive.

In this episode Amy Bell and M Irene interview Mike Ahlstrom about the basics of worldbuilding! Mike's talents in worldbuilding extend from his writing, artwork and dungeon and dragons worlds. From magic systems to cultures, how much worldbuilding do you need in your stories and what makes worldbuilding realistic?

 In this episode Amy Bell and M Irene interview Jessica Guernsey about how to prepare for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Jessica Guernsey details some of her tips, as well as talks about her overall experience with NaNoWriMo!

In this episode Amy Bell and M Irene interview Jason June! He discusses critique groups, finding your voice, and the culture of writing! He gives advice for what can be the most helpful in a critique group and navigating the YA writing space, as well as the writing world in general.

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In this episode Amy Bell and M Irene interview guest author Cassie Shiels about tackling the middle of your story. She details tools she uses in order to better help her plot and write the middle of your story. For starters she talks about how changing our mindset from seeing it as the murky middle can help shift your perspective on writing.

In this episode Amy Bell and M Irene interview author Don Carey about his plotting process! He details how plotting and layouts have benefited his writing, and specifically dives into the Save the Cat Writes a Novel Plot structure and how he uses it to plot his stories.

In this episode, Amy Bell and M Irene summarize various plot structures that can help you in their writing. They also discuss what it means to be a pantser vs. plotter and why knowing plot structure can help you in either scenario!