The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne: https://amzn.to/41tRDlg

My Chapters Video: https://youtu.be/Ci0P1dM7cqY

How have you improved your own prose? What would you recommend for others?

Starlight Farm's Kennel for Talking Dogs: https://amzn.to/4b9OuLP

Free Version of Elements of Style by Strunk: https://archive.org/details/TheElementsOfStyle4thEdition/mode/2up

What are your thoughts on Word Count? Outdated? Stressful? Useful? Needed? Do you write based on Word Count or something else?

Mark Dawson links:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/28/william-boyd-james-bond-interview 

Crave lawsuit links:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/13/did-a-best-selling-romantasy-novelist-steal-another-writers-story

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21564103-lynne-freeman-v-tracyt-wolff-crave-copyright-complaint/?mode=document

Exploratory writing and the screenplay approach. This was one of those moments where I heard something in passing and just went wide-eyed.

Shout out to Ten Very Big Books, the Malazan: Book of the Fallen readalong podcast that I love.

Check out Rob J Hayes: https://www.robjhayes.co.uk/

Check out the most recent video over at the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@writing-theory

Apologies for any clipping audio, it'll be fixed in upcoming episodes!

Reddit is a hub of community and discussion, but the writing subreddit is lackluster. Each month, we dive into some popular posts for further discussion. Today, it's all about the state of indie writing and some rules of storytelling that I see pop up every year or so.

Welcome to the first episode of The Writing Theory Podcast! I'm so excited to start this amazing journey with you!

This episode is a look into how some of the great authors write. But here's the deal: They're the greats. They've made it. Some of them have crazy routines. What can we learn from their routines so that we can amp up our own?

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