Episode 44 of the Wild Isle Podcast and 25 of the Writing Cast. In this episode, I discuss the irrational editorial aversion to adverbs, adjectives, and long-winded figurative description.

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Episode 43 of the Wild Isle Podcast. In this episode, I am joined by my fiancé, JJ Chaplin, to discuss the utter state of early education, SEL and its effects, and what is missing from children's schools (and homes as well).

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Episode 42 of the Wild Isle Podcast and 25 of the Writing Cast. In this episode, I am joined by fellow author and artist Torin Fletcher (aka Agr1ppa) to discuss the abolition of the distinction between literary and genre fiction. We analyze our own work in an attempt to show why authors ought to aim higher in the composition of their prose.

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Episode forty-one of the Wild Isle Podcast and twenty-five of the Writing Cast. In this episode, I am joined by professional fiction editor Kristin Noland to discuss reading for writing. We cover the whats and whys of an author's healthy reading diet.

Find Kristin at the link below:

website: https://www.nolandediting.com

courses: https://www.nolandediting.com/academy

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinnoland/

Threads: @noland_editing

Twitter: @KristinNoland99

Kristin's Bio:

Kristin is an internationally renowned professional editor, specializing in developmental, line, and copy editing speculative and crime fiction.

She’s edited over seventy manuscripts, including two bestsellers. Many of her clients are authors who self-publish or submit to agents and publishers. Kristin is a contracted editor for Brooke Warner Coaching, LLC., She Writes Press, Greenleaf Book Group, as well as the editorial service companies—Book Butchers and The Literary Consultancy. At Literary Wanderlust, a traditional publisher, she held the position of assistant editor.

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Episode forty of the Wild Isle Podcast and twenty-four of the Writing Cast. In this episode, I am joined once again by the venerable space captain, Michael H. to discuss how one can successfully write morally good characters and themes.

Find Michael at the link below:

https://www.minds.com/aeternis/

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Episode 39 of the Wild Isle Podcast & 23 of the Writing Cast. In this episode of Regression to the Mean, I discuss what "head hopping" isn't via a few snippets of fiction. The truth is, more often than not, there isn't a problem except for the solution.

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Taoist inspired flash fiction.

https://www.wildislelit.com/the-seven-scholars-the-measureless-path

Episode thirty-eight of the Wild Isle Podcast and twenty-two of the Writing Cast. In this episode, I am joined by author and axman Brad of King's Wrath (a.k.a. Wraith) to discuss action scenes and sequences in fiction, how they are structured, and how they can be successfully employed.

Find Brad at the links below:

https://www.minds.com/CodenameWraith/

https://www.youtube.com/@kingswrathofficial8953

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Episode thirty-seven of the Wild Isle Podcast. In this episode, I am joined by my fiancé, JJ Chaplin, to discuss Albert Camus's essay "The Myth of Sisyphus" and how it reveals the bitter, spiteful spirit at the heart of the French existentialist.

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Episode thirty-six of the Wild Isle Podcast and twenty-one of the Writing Cast. In this episode, I am joined by fellow dark wizard Nathaniel Cumberledge to discussion speculative and prescriptive fiction and how that dichotomy might be more primary than setting or genre.

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