Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT Hume Amateur Hour

Episode 121 is started slow, but evolved into something interesting and complex.

We talked about about our minimal efforts on our works in progress. The challenges for CC is finding the time to hit the keyboard. My challenge is I'm making things up as I go along, so I think I created a readable adventure, but not a viable ending. If you're in a similar situation, we have ideas.

We put togethere a mailbox yesterday. Gently speaking, it was our usual comedy of errors.

The main gist of the podcast was about the challenge of writing about events we have not experienced first hand, including COVID, Gettysberg, Pearl Harbor, and the 1917 pandemic. One of those things we actually did experience in the last couple of weeks, but for the most part, we writers are challenged when we want to include the feel and taste of times gone by.

We also spent time on how folks in the past got swept up in events through herd mentality, and how sometimes the best books are those who stand in front of the tanks.

Tomorrow is CC's birthday if you want to buy her a cup of coffee.

Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!

Happy Father's Day and Juneteenth to all who celebrate!

Episode 120 is all about:

- Our works in progress,

- JT's new part-time job,

- Visiting places from our youth and feeling the ghosts walking through us,

- Readers' reading habits, and

- Tighter plots for the shorter attentions spans of the 21st Century.

Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA! LYL!

Episode 119 is our examination about setting fiction in places where the writer has never traveled. CC uses a great example of space to illustrate the challenge. We talk about the tools we use to overcome this barrier.

Also discussed is the Wrath of God hail storm from June 10 and our usual flailing at the keyboards on our current WIPs.

Have a listen and check us out www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!

The podcast is back after a two-week hiatus due to JT driving to the East Coast and back to see his sister. Today's episode is all about that eleven-state tour (NV, UT, WY, NE, IA, IL, IN, OH, PA, MD, DE, and back). For those scoring at home, JT drove over 5,500 miles.

Also:

Visiting the Gettysburg National Military Park

What's the one color you'll see from coast to coast?

Happy 41st Anniversary!

Gettyburg is a must-see for the history nerd (guilty). If you can't get there, Justin Scarred from Randomland does a great job outlining the museum and the battlefields.

We'll get back to a true writing podcast next week. Have a listen and enjoy!

Happy Mother's Day to all who celebrate and should be celebrated! This week, we spent most of the podcast bragging about our kids, but we also debated a fair amount trying to crack the tough nut of Time.

Question: how do you find the time to write? Even as empty nesters, CC and I struggle to set aside time to work on our WIP. We bounce around some ideas and plans.

Have a listen, check us out at www.carsonhume.com, and send us your suggestions. TIA! LYL!

Bonjour! Today's writer's podcast is all about the City of Lights: Paris, France. We were lucky to spend more than a week discovering the wonders of Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Élysées, and a thousand places in between. From the Paris Metro to a famous graveyard. We walked along the Seine and took a long boat ride on the Seine, yet we barely scratch the surface of this wonderous city.

From a writer's POV, we learned about communication gaps, French culture and history, and whether there was any truth to certain French stereotypes. Plus we visited Victor Hugo's bedroom and Oscar Wilde's tomb.

Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA! LYL!

Some of the places we visited:

Musée Marmottan Monet https://www.marmottan.fr/en/

Musée National Picasso-Paris https://www.museepicassoparis.fr/en/home-page

Victor Hugo House https://www.maisonsvictorhugo.paris.fr/en

Musée Carnavalet (History of Paris) https://www.carnavalet.paris.fr/

Musée des Arts et Métiers (Arts and Crafts) https://www.arts-et-metiers.net/

Père-Lachaise cemetery https://en.parisinfo.com/discovering-paris/walks-in-paris/unusual-stroll-cemetery-pere-lachaise

For Carson City's Mark Twain Days, we went to a writers' workshop on Nevada and came away with interesting perspectives and ideas. CC might even have a new story to tell.

Here's a plug for CC's past colleague Rich Moreno who wrote a timely piece on "Frontier Fake News," available through the University of Nevada Press. Good guy and good writer.

Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!

Episode 114 of the "helping writers write" podcast touches on messages to our younger selves. What we have learned and what would we say to ourselves if we could go back in time. "Never give up" is the obvious advice, but the rest is not so obvious.

Also discussed:

-Paris (France)

-Mark Twain

-Our Basement

-Retirement

-Significant Birthdays

-Going to College

-Our current WIPs

And the real reason they made you take algebra in high school. It wasn't a waste of time!

Listen to this and other podcasts at www.carsonhume.com and let us know what you think. TIA and LYL!

Been a low and slow day at the CC and JT Amateur Hour where "we help writers write" because Spring has finally sprung. Woo!

We talked about the craft of writing last week, which is the technical aspect of grammar, editing, and publishing. These are universal to all books.

What is not universal is the creative process or the art of writing, so today's podcast is all about pulling words from our brains and getting them on the screen. CC and I compare and contrast our respective styles as we talk about our current works in progress.

Shorter: we podcast on making the sausage.

Check us out at www.carsonhume.com

For those who celebrate: Happy Easter! For the rest of us: Happy Zombie Jesus Day!

TIA! LYL!

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Episode 112 of our writer's podcast tackles Spring Cleaning, the ritual of opening the windows, letting in the fresh air, and getting your house organized.

For writers, it's about the craft of writing: organizing your manuscripts, filing documents in their proper folders, and reorganizing your brain for the next manuscript.

Also discussed: our basement (sigh), France, Mark Twain in Nevada, and the artist's right to change their work.

Lots of good stuff here. Lots more on our website at www.carsonhume.com

TIA LYL!