Subscribe Here! In this fifth installment in our miniseries on teaching students how to write, Rob asks: “How can I help my students conquer their fear of the blank page and get that first sentence down?”

Subscribe Here! In this fourth installment in our miniseries on teaching students how to write, Rob asks: “How can I help my students improve their spelling, so they’ll be willing to use their full vocabulary in their fiction?”

Subscribe Here! In this third installment in our miniseries on teaching students how to write, Rob asks: “How can I respect subculture grammar while teaching best practices in word choice and writing?”

Subscribe Here! In this second installment in our miniseries on teaching students how to write, Rob asks: “How can we effectively expand our usable vocabulary?” Books mentioned: The King James Bible The Works of Shakespeare The Illiad The Odyssey The Oedipus Trilogy The Satires of Juvenal Ciero

Subscribe Here! As the first in our new miniseries on teaching students how to write, Rob asks: “How do I get my students to write with the same command of language they use when they speak?”

Subscribe Here! Vega asks: “How do you manage a creative life with multiple artforms?” This episode sponsored by BundleRabbit

Subscribe Here! JR asks: “How long do you expect the trend for people preferring series over standalones to continue?” Also, Terry Mixon joins us to speak (briefly) about discovery writing. Check out his book Empire of Bones. This episode sponsored by BundleRabbit

Subscribe Here! Cheyenne asks: “How can I write characters who don’t share my values, without betraying my values?” Books discussed: Tree and Leaf by J.R.R. Tolkien Poetics by Aristotle

Subscribe Here! Rob asks: “How do you decide what word count to shoot for–and how do you work up to it?”

Subscribe Here! Cheyenne asks: “How do you keep beta readers from stealing your book?” Books mentioned: The Copyright Handbook