Lauren & Darcy recap season one of the podcast on Thanksgiving day.

Huge thank you to you for listening and following our journey as we published our first novella during season one. Thank you to our guests as well who came on and brought incredible wisdom and insight as well as helped us improve the podcast little by little.

We can't wait to see you guys in January for the next season. Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to everyone!

We're done! Finally! The novella has launched itself off into KDP's 72 hour processing window and then it will be available for everyone to read!

And we did it in two months. Come listen as we share our process and what it was like to cowrite a novella together.

"Consistency is what rewards your efforts. Not necessarily even talent or creativity."

Melody Godfred proves this as she takes the winding path of a poet from lawyer to entrepreneur to self published author and poet to trad published poet. Along the way she drops some incredible insight into the differences between trad and indie publishing around marketing, defining your success by what you want as an author, the importance of showing up over even creativity or talent, and so much more.

Author of the newly released poetry book "Moon Gardens", Melody Godfred shares a unique look into life as a poet.

The spooky, scary, deadlines! Mwah, haaa, haaa! But what actually makes a good deadline? Dive in with us as we share where we're at in the writing process as we go into NaNoWriMo or as I have taken to calling it NaNo NoMo, haha.

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Time to dust off that library card as we hang out with Matthew Cesari, a playwright who works at a library in GA. He pulls the current back on some of the little known tools that library's may have available for authors: writing classes, creative studios, local author book fairs, and more.Have you ever wanted your book available at your local library? Matthew walks us through how an indie author ca get their work in the library system, and it's way more approachable than you'd think.

If you've ever wanted your book at the library or are looking for community as a writer it's time to go check out your local library!

Editing with curiosity is Lauren's mantra in this episode as she dives into the ways she's provided editing assistance to other writers in the past and how she's planning to tweak it for this new co-writing experience where she's not only the editor but half of the brain behind the writing too.

If the editing process has ever felt daunting or scary listen in on Darcy and Lauren's conversation to hear how they make it a little less intimidating.

And. There just might be a title drop and cover reveal in this episode for the upcoming rom-com novella out on October 31st!

Are you allowing yourself to iterate and grow or are you frozen in the indecision of whether or not something is perfect? Phillip Abraham, one half of the internet couple Phillip & Leah, comes on today's episode to talk about how critical social media is for filmmakers and other creatives, how to carve out a space on the internet for yourself, and why iterating is the key to success in the modern world of storytelling. If you've ever felt stuck when it comes to social media or frustrated that the things you're sharing aren't gaining traction Phillips got some amazing words of advice that you need to hear.

Are you beating yourself up for not writing enough? Do you struggle with staying focused during writing sessions or finding the words to just start? Are you stuck rereading the first few chapters every time you sit down to write and then....nothing comes afterwards? We get it. We've struggled, and honestly still struggle at times, with all of those. In this episode we talk about some of the hacks we've found to keep us focused and what you can do to build space in your own schedule for writing. Whatever results you're getting now, that's what your systems, your life rhythms, are built to produce. If you want different results, you'll have to build different systems or rhythms. What we're suggesting is far from the only way to do this. If you've found a way that works better for you share it below! You never know who you might impact.

H.J Nelson, author of The Last She trilogy, joins us to talk about her experience as a writer on Wattpad during the early days, getting a publishing deal with them, the pitfalls of a Schmagent and what to look out for so you don't end up with one yourself.

If you've ever wanted to know some of the behind the scenes of the Wattpad era and what it looks like today to pursue the trad industry after venturing out on your own, here's your inside look!

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"We have to make a pivot", a phrase that's almost as scary as admitting, "I have writers block". How did we get here? Where do we go now? Are we for sure this is the right direction since we already got ourselves lost once?

Come find out what happens when Lauren & Darcy realize they need to make a big change.....and who may or may not have been unhappy with it at first.