Monsters you can come across on your adventure including the evil time eater… Goal: 21,666 I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774) Support this show on Patreon!  Housekeeping: This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only […]

Back to the spoof radio shows, this time we look at the soap opera, and how it teaches us one of the basic things about characters. Namely- they've got to WANT something.

DESPITE what I posted yesterday about the power of placebos, you still have to do the work, sorry to say.

Do you need that cup of tea, or the right music, or your lucky Star Wars figure to sit beside your monitor so you can imagine it saying "you got this!"?

I talk about good old Chuck Palahniuk and how he wrote Fight Club. If it’s good enough for the NYT Bestseller then it’s good enough for you! Or something more motivational…He wasn’t a bestseller when he wrote Fight Club, you know. Goal: 15,000 I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you […]

Podcast for November 8, 2020: Write whatever scene is in your mind. Don’t worry about whether it follows the last scene, or even if it’s got the right characters. Just get the words down, and fix it in edits! Goal: 13333 I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use […]

Now is the time to pull out all your description: food, drink, color, touch, adverbs, adjectives, spelling out contractions, etc.

Should have run November 6. Considering how distracted/low energy I've been this week, I figured getting back to the daily show with a distractions episode was appropriate.

Don't compare yourself to others. It's a waste of time and energy.

We are back with our 2016 fantasy RPG, and we discuss the importance of both PCs (aka Player Characters, aka the important people in your stories) and NPCs (the spear carries and the cashiers and the red shirts and those troopers that Star Wars heroes have no problem killing but they can’t kill the actual […]