Today, Emily & Rachel talk about what writing feedback should really be like.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• What feedback should NOT feel like
• What feedback SHOULD feel like
• What feedback actually means
• How to cultivate healthy feedback relationships

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Today, Emily & Rachel talk about a brainstorming technique called divergent and convergent thinking.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• how divergent and convergent thinking work
• how to let go of the pressure of coming up with perfect ideas
• how to apply this brainstorming technique to your own writing roadblocks

Ready to make readers so in love with your characters they can’t stop biting their nails in anticipation?  Grab The Magic of Character Arcs free email course: http://www.goldenmayediting.com/arcsmagic

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Today, Emily & Rachel talk about our favorite trick to making your writing life easy.

In this episode you'll learn:

• how you're probably making writing harder than it needs to be
• how to take the pressure off yourself
• our fav tip for making writing easy
• the top ways you can implement this tip

Ready to make readers so in love with your characters they can’t stop biting their nails in anticipation? Grab The Magic of Character Arcs free email course: www.goldenmayediting.com/arcsmagic

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Today on our first official episode, Emily & Rachel talk about building a sustainable writing life.

In this episode you'll learn:

• how to avoid the 'shoulds' in your writing life
• the 3 pillars of a sustainable writing life
• how to develop practices that work for YOU
• where to get started with creating the writing life you deserve!

Ready to make readers so in love with your characters they can’t stop biting their nails in anticipation? Grab The Magic of Character Arcs free email course: www.goldenmayediting.com/arcsmagic

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Today, Emily & Rachel talk about character flaws.

In this episode you'll learn:

• why character flaws are so important
• our definition of the Internal Obstacle
• the difference between general flaws and the Internal Obstacle belief
• how to start developing your character's deep-seated flawed beliefs
• examples from published works!

Ready to make readers so in love with your characters they can’t stop biting their nails in anticipation? Grab The Magic of Character Arcs free email course: www.goldenmayediting.com/arcsmagic

If you enjoyed Story Magic, please rate, review and follow on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to this podcast!

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Hey fiction writer! Want your readers to stay up until 2am, so engrossed in your story they just can’t put it down? Want to build a successful, fulfilling, and sustainable writing life that works for YOU? Story Magic is the place for you.

Every week, professional book coaches and editors Emily and Rachel from Golden May dive into writing craft, community, and mindset tips, tricks, and advice so you can write and publish books you’re damn proud of, again and again. We cover craft topics like story structure, character development, worldbuilding and ‘show, don’t tell’; we dive into how to grow your writing community of readers and writing partners; and we’ll talk about all those mindset challenges from imposter syndrome and perfectionism to fear of the blank page.

Story Magic has all the tools you need to become the author you’re meant to be. You’ve got this, let’s go!