The Tea Grannies

Today we’re here to chat about character building, so pour yourself a cup of tea and let’s get started.

You can reach us anytime at [email protected] or on Instagram and Twitter @theteagrannies podcast. If you'd like to hear us critique your first page of your work-in-progress, upload instructions will be posted on our Instagram page when we open for submissions for Season 3. We may not get to all submissions and writers will remain anonymous, but we can't wait to read your work! Happy writing!

Links:

The Hunger Games

The Lord of the Rings

Skyrim

Dungeons & Dragons

Eileen Cook, Episode 6

World-building, Episode 8

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Today we’re here to chat about worldbuilding. So pour yourself a glass of wine and let’s get started!

You can reach us anytime at [email protected] or on Instagram and Twitter @theteagrannies podcast. If you'd like to hear us critique your first page of your work-in-progress, upload instructions will be posted on our Instagram page when we open for submissions for Season 3. We may not get to all submissions and writers will remain anonymous, but we can't wait to read your work! Happy writing!

Links:

The Way of Kings and Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Fable by Adrienne Young

The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

The Switch by Beth O'Leary

Free Creative Writing Lectures by Brandon Sanderson

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Today we’re here to chat about point of view and the impact it will have on your story. But first, we have some pages to critique, so pour yourself a cup of tea and let’s get started!

You can reach us anytime at [email protected] or on Instagram and Twitter @theteagrannies podcast. If you'd like to hear us critique your first page of your work-in-progress, upload instructions are included in the episode and on our Instagram page. We had such a blast doing our first pages episode that we decided we should keep it up! Our final four episodes of season two will feature critiques of submitted first pages, two per episode. We may not get to all submissions and writers will remain anonymous, but we can't wait to read your work! Happy writing!

Links

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

Submission upload instructions

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Today we’re here to talk about battles and baddies with bestselling young adult author, Eileen Cook! So pour yourself a cup of tea and let’s get started.

You can reach us anytime at [email protected] or on Instagram and Twitter @theteagrannies podcast. Happy writing!

Links

The Creative Academy

Books by Eileen Cook

Barbara Poelle's book about publishing

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Today we’re here to chat about romance for beginners. So pour yourself a cup of tea and let’s get started!

You can reach us anytime at [email protected] or on Instagram and Twitter @theteagrannies podcast. Happy writing!

Links

Tiktok handle we love: @atomicapplepie

Join Elise on Goodreads!

The Creative Academy

Books by Eileen Cook

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Today we’re here to chat about how to nail your first page. So pour yourself a cup of tea and let’s get started! This episode includes submissions from 8 anonymous authors. A HUGE thank-you to everyone who submitted! It was an honour and a privilege to read your work.

You can reach us anytime at [email protected] or on Instagram and Twitter @theteagrannies podcast.

Happy writing!

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Today we’re here to chat about our Nanowrimo progress and how to deal with writing burnout. So pour yourself a cup of tea and let’s get started! This episode was recorded on November 19, right before the last full week of NaNo.

You can reach us anytime at [email protected] or on Instagram and Twitter @theteagrannies podcast.

Happy writing!

Helpful links:

NaNoWriMo (add us as writing buddies! miraya_e and elisebbv)

NaNoWriMo Time Management Quiz (find more NaNo prep tools here: https://nanowrimo.org/nano-prep-101)

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We’re here to chat about our NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) progress. So pour yourself a cup of tea and let’s get started! Full disclosure: this episode was recorded on November 5, at the end of the first week of NaNo. Happy writing!

You can reach us anytime at [email protected] or on Instagram and Twitter @theteagrannies podcast.

Helpful links:

NaNoWriMo (add us as writing buddies! miraya_e and elisebbv)

NaNoWriMo Time Management Quiz (find more NaNo prep tools here: https://nanowrimo.org/nano-prep-101)

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We're here to talk about prepping for National Novel Writing Month, so pour yourself a cup of tea and let’s get started! You can reach us anytime at [email protected] or on Instagram and Twitter @theteagrannies podcast. See you in the next episode for Nano in the Trenches! Happy Writing.

Helpful links:

NaNoWriMo (add us as writing buddies! miraya_e and elisebbv)

NaNoWriMo 2020 Prizes

The Creative Academy

Scrivener

Dabble

ProWritingAid

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We’re here to talk about the differences between traditional versus self publishing! Neither of us are traditionally published (yet), and Elise has self-published. Since we have made it to the traditional query process together, we've done our best to sum up the benefits and drawbacks of these two types of publishing. All links are available below and you can reach us anytime at [email protected] or follow us @theteagranniespodcast on Instagram. Please rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts.

This is the last episode of Season 1! Join us in October for our first episode of Season 2: NanoWriMo in the Trenches!

Links:

The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University

Surrey International Writer's Conference (https://www.siwc.ca/)

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing Podcast (https://www.biancamarais.com/podcast---the-shit-no-one-tells-you-about-writing.html)

The Creative Academy (https://creativeacademyforwriters.com/)

Roots of Blood, Book I of the Nymph Keepers by Elise Volkman

NanoWriMo (https://nanowrimo.org/)

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