In this episode, we offer a tiny little slice of what's inside our Story Path course: a discussion of between Rachelle Ramirez and me about the importance of audience emotion and what you can do to help create specific feelings in your audience.

Learn more about story types and how they help you solve your pesky story problems at by watching our free, on-demand "Get Your Story Unstuck" webinar: https://www.storypath.me/masterclass-registration

We have a special treat for you this week. We're getting ready to reopen the doors on our Story Path course, so we've got a little audio sample for you of something from Module 5 on the importance of premise in your story. 

When it comes to what your story is about, the answer you give to others and the answer you need yourself to write the book can be completely different. One helps others find your book, the other helps you find your story. Rachelle Ramirez and Anne Hawley dive into how and why to distill your premise down to its essence.  

If you want to hear more about our Story Path course, visit http://storypath.me where you can download our seven page guide to the essential story types and you'll get on a mailing list to be notified when the Story Path course opens for enrollment later in August 2020.

If you’re writing a novel or piece of narrative nonfiction and you can’t seem to get anywhere with it, I’ll bet you dollars to dark chocolate you can’t satisfactorily answer the following question:

What type of story are you telling?

If the question itself confuses you, if your answer takes twenty minutes, or if you said “It’s a fantasy,” or “It’s young adult,” I have good news. By the end of this article, you’ll have a much clearer idea of why you’ve wandered off the path, and how to get back on.

Download a free guide to all 7 Story Types at http://storypath.me.

Many writers know they'll have to do their marketing eventually, they just want to put it off as long as possible. In this episode, we'll look at 6 reasons to start now. And if your author website is one of the places you're stuck, Pages and Platforms is offering a free webinar on Friday, July 10, 2020. Sue will show you exactly what you do and don’t for your author website. Register at https://www.pagesandplatforms.com/author-website-registration.

Our brain sends us fear messages all the time. How do we know when to heed them and when to plow ahead, even when we are afraid? This episode will give you one powerful question to ask to help you decide.

Sue talks with author Helen Zuman, author of the memoir Mating in Captivity, about her successful outreach push during the pandemic with the help of the Pages & Platforms Outreach Intensive. A new session of the Outreach Intensive begins June 8, 2020. Visit http://pagesandplatform.com/outreach-intensive.

Writers face a ridiculous amount of choices. But we've got to get good and making them and moving on or we'll never get anywhere.

Sue takes a look at what an author website is actually for (and it's probably not what you think). And she shares some essential dos and don'ts for author websites so you can give yours a tweak.

Settings goals is crucial for your success as an author. But there are some pitfalls to goal-setting. The biggest one is getting graspy and desperate to reach our goals. In this episode, I'm introducing the "goal sandwich" as a way to get yourself mentally prepared to set goals from a place of already feeling worthy.

We're gearing up to present the Pages & Platforms Scene Workshop later this month, so we're kicking things off by taking a look at the first essential element of a good scene: The inciting incident.

I'm passing the mic to Story Grid certified editor Anne Hawley to take us through some of the finer details of inciting incidents: what they are, why you need one, and their various flavors.

To learn more about the upcoming Scene Workshop, visit: http://pagesandplatforms.com/sceneworkshop.