This week’s show is the third of a three-part discussion of story structure, where we break down the three-act structure and try and apply it to Taylor’s writing style. The focus of this week’s show is endings. In this weeks episode, Taylor mentions story fatigue and shares some thoughts on how cultural expectations come […]

This week’s show is the second of a three-part discussion of story structure, where we break down the three-act structure and try and apply it to Taylor’s writing style. The focus of this week’s show is the middle. In this week’s call to action, Steve mentions an interview featuring Suzanne Orchard, the owner of the […]

This week’s show is the start of a three-part discussion of story structure, where we break down the three-act structure and try and apply it to Taylor’s writing style. The focus of this week’s show is beginnings. The episode begins with… drum roll…. big news from Taylor where she’s finally able to announce some news she’s […]

Taylor returns from a visit to New York where she spent time at Thrillerfest and finally met her long time narrator, the incredible Hillary Huber. We discuss Taylor’s travels, Steve’s visit to a fabulous to Key West Island Books, a fabulous little indie bookstore in Key West, Florida and we consider a listener (thanks, Robert!) […]

Even if you get critiques that tell you ‘no, this isn’t working,’ don’t let that stop you. It just means you’re not there yet. —– Taylor This week’s show is all about advance readers, or beta readers.  How they can help with your writing as well as some specific advice on what roles they can […]

If you’re really doing it right then almost the entire narrative, that is not external dialogue is going to be internal monolog. — Taylor In this episode, we get caught up on Taylor’s summer, discuss The Dunning-Kruger Effect then discuss a blog post from Anne R. Allen’s blog titled, Stupid Writing Rules: 12 Bad […]

What I think is really important, and really key to remembering character aspects is how the character behaves, how they’ve responded to situations. That sort of character consistency is far more important than descriptions. — Taylor Today’s topic comes via email from Sue who asks if Taylor uses a notebook with photos of her characters and […]

In this week’s episode, Taylor and Steve recap the first 100 episodes of the podcast and discuss plans for going forward.  We also discuss Taylor’s use of the term grit and how it can mean different things to different people. If you remember episodes 87 and 88, Taylor worked on some material from a […]

In this week’s episode, Taylor, a veteran of numerous book events in a variety of different venues walks us through a planning blueprint that can be used for your next book event. Thanks so much for joining us again this week! If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear […]

I think a lot of the quick switch of POV really comes about through inexperience, in the sense that the author has had a lot of chance to learn how to bring those important thoughts, things that the reader need to know, how to bring them on to the page, in any other way. —– […]