Guild members all asleep, but a few shadows run around in the night. Come along as we set up the first Novelist Journey mystery!

Questions arise, characters collide. You start to wonder what's really going on here. What haven't I told you? Maybe I don't even know. We can find out together.

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Try not to be too loud... Kidding, talk as loud as you want! No one's asleep just yet. But they will be. While everyone's awake, it's time to share figure out what the dynamic is. What's everyone's vibe?

Come along as I spoil Loki, get deep, and ignore the plot. It's a little bit of everything!

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A key ingredient to a great story is the plot. Whether you make it using characters, or the world around them. After 13 long chapters we finally get to find out where this whole thing has been headed.

This chapter... the plot thickens. Some of the characters become more than just a name, but a driving force in this story.

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Who are you? If I were to read something you wrote, would I be able to feel like I know you a little better? You'd be surprised how important that sort of thing is to your writing.

In chapter 12, I tell you more about me than I have before and show you how I add that into my writing. I reveal new players from the Juktarn guild as we look for our hidden villain.

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There are some things about writing that just don't fit within a story. In this first ever bonus episode we take things in a different direction. Looking at the resources (beyond this amazing podcast) that you can use to grow as a writer and fulfill your goals.

Come along for a quick side arc as I share some the things that worked for me throughout the years. Maybe, just maybe, one will work for you...

You might have thought them up, but your characters think for themselves. And sometimes they do things you didn't plan for. They are and they become more than you expected.

For this chapter, we want to what drives them to do all that. Where does it come from? How does it change over the course of the story or series? Take a look as we see motivation and a little villainy among the characters we think we know so well.

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It's alive! Does that line get old? Everything is alive if you can imagine it. And today we're taking our imaginations into the dark. Nighttime dark that is.

In this chapter we explore what it means to have spectacular animals like you've seen before. Only, you haven't seen it before. We're collecting creatures from all over my story world to inspire a whole new creature for our journey.

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When walking into a new room, what do you notice first? The smell? The layout? Are you looking for the snacks or who's in it and where they are?

When you're looking around for something specific, even the most mundane things start to catch your eye. Even if just to move them out of the way. Come sneak around with me and look at what you might have missed before. At what your reader might be missing out on.

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Good day, traveler. Or is it night? It's getting hard to tell. Come along as we explore plants. Yes, the things you see all around, in the dirt, both small and tall.

You haven't seen the half of what you can do with them. We're going to look at a few examples of what they can be and maybe you'll make your own by the end.

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