Marshall and Nick discuss their passions for writing and what got them both on the course of writing. Nick opens up about his life-changing events that convinced him to take his writing career serious. *Warning, this episode is emotional*

Topic of the Month: Getting started

This Month’s Challenge:  Tell us how you approach starting a new project!

Links mentioned during the show:

Awesome Foundation

San Diego Comic-Con

Mo Con

Support the Show:

Patreon

Contact us!

Discord

Facebook

Marshall:

• Website: www.marshallcarr.com

Nick:

• Website: www.brightinks.org

Now, just keep writing!

Marshall and Nick discuss how they approach starting a new project. They discuss their early years when they first began to write, how they discovered their writing styles, and what has worked for them. And yes, both Marshall and Nick are both Pantliners when it comes to their projects. Pantliner: Hybrid of outliner and pantsing.

Topic of the Month: Getting started

This Month’s Challenge:  Tell us how you approach starting a new project!

Links mentioned during the show:

Awesome Foundation

San Diego Comic-Con

Mo Con

Support the Show:

Patreon

Contact us!

Discord

Facebook

Marshall:

• Website: www.marshallcarr.com

Nick:

• Website: www.brightinks.org

Now, just keep writing!

Listen as Marshall and Nick discuss real-life events as examples of code-switching they use frequently and how to apply it to your characters! This will make your characters feel more believable. Nick also does a fantastic (not really) reading from the Brandon Sanderson novel “Skyward” as an example of code-switching.

Topic of the Month: Dialogue

This Month’s Challenge: Take a scene from your current Work In Progress (WIP) and rewrite the scene with dialogue. When you rewrite this dialogue, do with it without dialogue tags. Look to make your characters distinguished from one another but there mannerisms and unique traits. Add dialogue tags later as necessary.

Links mentioned during the show:

Awesome Foundation

San Diego Comic-Con

Mo Con

Brandon Sanderson

Support the Show:

Patreon

Contact us!

Discord

Facebook

Marshall:

• Website: www.marshallcarr.com

Nick:

• Website: www.brightinks.org

Now, just keep writing!

This week, Marshall and Nick discuss character distinction through dialogue. They discuss dialect, word choice, and avoiding negative stereotypes to distinguish characters. They also talk about their upcoming event during San Diego Comic-Con.

Topic of the Month: Dialogue

This Month’s Challenge: Take a scene from your current Work In Progress (WIP) and rewrite the scene with dialogue. When you rewrite this dialogue, do with it without dialogue tags. Look to make your characters distinguished from one another but there mannerisms and unique traits. Add dialogue tags later as necessary.

Links mentioned during the show:

Awesome Foundation

San Diego Comic-Con

Mo Con

Brandon Sanderson

Support the Show:

Patreon

Contact us!

Discord

Facebook

Marshall:

• Website: www.marshallcarr.com

Nick:

• Website: www.brightinks.org

Now, just keep writing!

This week, Marshall and Nick discuss world building through dialogue. They use their current works in progress to explain how they get away from info dumping by using dialogue instead.

NOTE: Nick’s audio sounds not so great, but we’ll have that fixed for future episodes.

Topic of the Month: Dialogue

This Month’s Challenge: Take a scene from your current Work In Progress (WIP) and rewrite scene with dialogue. When you rewrite this dialogue, do with it without dialogue tags. Look to make your characters distinguished from one another but there mannerisms and unique traits. Add dialogue tags later as necessary.

Links mentioned during the show:

Awesome Foundation

San Diego Comic-Con

Mo Con

John Scalzi

Terry Brooks

Support the Show:

Patreon

Contact us!

Discord

Facebook

Marshall:

• Website: www.marshallcarr.com

Nick:

• Website: www.brightinks.org

Now, just keep writing!

This week, Marshall and Nick discuss the February challenge and usher in a new topic for the month of March: Dialogue. Maurice Broaddus joins Marshall and Nick this week to talk about to best use of time while working a day job and how effective dialogue can do for the reader. Maurice also talks about the in-depth research he did for his series “Knights of Breton Court.”

Topic of the Month: Dialogue

This Month’s Challenge: Take a scene from your current Work In Progress (WIP) and rewrite a scene with dialogue. When you rewrite this dialogue, do with it without dialogue tags. Look to make your characters distinguished from one another but there mannerisms and unique traits. Add dialogue tags later as necessary.

Links mentioned during the show:

Awesome Foundation

Maurice Broaddus

• Mo Con

Support the Show:

Patreon

Contact us!

Discord

Facebook

Marshall:

• Website: www.marshallcarr.com

Nick:

• Website: www.brightinks.org

Now, just keep writing!

This week, Marshall and Nick discuss how they made time to write and share a few Scrivener tips.

Topic of the Month: How do you create time in your day, week or month to write, and what tools do you use?

This Month’s Challenge:

• Part 1: Like, follow, rate and share us on social media! Join our Discord channel, like our Facebook page, and follow our websites.

Writer’s Task for the Week:

• Try Scrivener free trial

Support the Show:

Patreon

Contact us!

Discord

Facebook

Marshall:

• Website: www.marshallcarr.com

Nick:

• Website: www.brightinks.org

Now, just keep writing!

Marshall and Nick discuss their plans for the show, and their hopes to create a supportive writing community around the desire to keep writing. They also talk about writing conventions, barcons, their topic of the month, and this month's listener challenge.

Convention Links:

Writing Excuses Retreat 2019

LTUE

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Futurescapes

MoCon

Dragoncon

World of Fantasy

Topic of the Month: How do you create time in your day, week or month to write, and what tools do you use?

Links to Tools:

Scrivener

4 the Words

Pacemaker Planner

Write or Die

Wordsmith

Links to What the Guys are Reading:

John Scalzi

• The Interdependency

Dan Wells

• Zero G

Brandon Sanderson

• Snapshot

Relic of the Gods trilogy by Philip C. Quaintrell

King Maker - Maurice Broaddus

• King’s Justice: Knights of Breton Court, Book 2

TV Shows Mentioned:

Russian Doll

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Mindhunter

This Month’s Challenge:

• Part 1: Like, follow, rate and share us on social media! Join our Discord channel, like our Facebook page, and follow our websites.

Support the Show:

Patreon

Contact us!

Discord

Facebook

Marshall:

• Website: www.marshallcarr.com

Nick:

• Website: www.brightinks.org

Now, just keep writing!