Welcome to Working Title, a podcast where two writer friends stumble through books we love, looking for writing secrets.

This episode concludes the first season of Working Title! Join us as we reflect back on where we've been, dream up where we want to wander next, and discuss letting go of our fear while getting lost in the woods.

Thank you all for joining us! We'll be back with Season 2 starting in January, 2022!

Welcome to Working Title, a podcast where two writer friends stumble through books we love, looking for writing secrets. Join us as we re-read books that were foundational to our own writing, explore themes across many stories, and discuss what inspires us.

In this episode Leah and Dana explore how Sarah Gailey embraces their writing darlings and how newbie writers can learn from their characterization techniques while discussing Gailey's novella River of Teeth.

Welcome to Working Title, a podcast where two writer friends stumble through books we love, looking for writing secrets. Join us as we re-read books that were foundational to our own writing, explore themes across many stories, and discuss what inspires us.

In this episode Dana and Leah channel our own inner writing demons in an exercise from Tim Clare's 100 Day Writing Challenge. We discuss wrestling with anxiety, and how to engage creatively from a place of care and experimentation.

If you like, join us and try the exercise yourself! http://www.timclarepoet.co.uk/the-100-day-writing-challenge/the-100-day-writing-challenge-day-25/

Welcome to Working Title, a podcast where two writer friends stumble through books we love, looking for writing secrets. Join us as we read books that were foundational to our own writing (flashbacks), explore themes across genres and books (plot twist) and talk about whatever is inspiring us (red herring).

In this episode, Dana and Leah discuss Leah's pick: Never Let Me Go.  They cover how Kazuo Ishiguro writes quiet dystopias, characters who lie to themselves and how to write a tragic story that doesn't overwhelm the reader.

Welcome to Working Title, a podcast where two writer friends stumble through books we love, looking for writing secrets. Join us as we read books that were foundational to our own writing (flashbacks), explore themes across genres and books (plot twist) and talk about whatever is inspiring us (red herring).

For this flashback episode, we were joined by Emilie of @inknotblood! We delved deep into our memories to read Wolf Tower, a fantasy YA novel by Tanith Lee. Together we discuss voice-y narrators, meandering plots, and our most embarrassing teenage diary entries.

Find us on twitter: @worktitlepod

Welcome to Working Title, a podcast where two writer friends stumble through books we love, looking for writing secrets. Join us as we read books that were foundational to our own writing (flashbacks), explore themes across genres and books (plot twist) and talk about whatever is inspiring us (red herring).

In this episode, Leah and Dana explore what libraries in fiction can reveal about characters and our relationships with stories. Libraries are so much more than places where books are stored they are symbols (and often literal places) of community; the hold histories and futures. Using The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern and The Book of M by Peng Shepherd as pillars in the conversation, Dana and Leah discuss the range of the idea.

Books mentioned:

The Starless Sea by Ering Morgenstern

The Book of M by Peng Shepherd

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

The Library of Legends by Janie Chang

Welcome to Working Title, a podcast where two writer friends stumble through books we love, looking for writing secrets. Join us as we read books that were foundational to our own writing (flashbacks), explore themes across genres and books (plot twist) and talk about whatever is inspiring us (red herring).

In this episode Dana and Leah cover the joy of collaborative story telling through table top games, the importance of not taking art too seriously while staying true to yourself, and the voice that tells us not to write.

Welcome to Working Title, a podcast where two writer friends stumble through books we love, looking for writing secrets. Join us as we read books that were foundational to our own writing (flashbacks), explore themes across genres and books (plot twist) and talk about whatever is inspiring us (red herring).

For this flashback episode, we read Wintersong, a debut fantasy YA novel by S. Jae-Jones. Dana and Leah discuss paradoxes, stealing from stories you love, and whether all books really need a plot.

Find us on twitter: @worktitlepod

Welcome to Working Title, a podcast where two writer friends stumble through books we love, looking for writing secrets. Join us as we read books that were foundational to our own writing (flashbacks), explore themes across genres and books (plot twist) and talk about whatever is inspiring us (red herring).

On this episode we invite a guest writer, Rebecca Conroy, to choose our flashback pick. Goddess of the Night by Lynne Ewing is the first in an early-2000s YA series about a group of young girls with magic powers. In this episode we talk about the power of girl gangs with amazing costume changes, how YA has changed over the years and a truly wild plot. 

Find us on twitter: https://twitter.com/worktitlepod

Find Rebecca online:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TeaHag_Rebecca

Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/c/teahags

A Series of Unfortunate Sequels: https://open.spotify.com/show/7c9rZ1HWOZM7A9iljHXkXv

League of Loreheads: https://open.spotify.com/show/2pJTP3eAqT3qpCdIJfw0av

Welcome to Working Title, a podcast where two writer friends stumble through books we love, looking for writing secrets. Join us as we read books that were foundational to our own writing (flashbacks), explore themes across genres and books (plot twist) and talk about whatever is inspiring us (red herring).

In our first plot twist episode we're exploring Trickster Gods! What are they and how do they function in a story? Dana and Leah compare how   Rebecca Roanhorse and Tamora Pierce use the Trickster God in their stories Trail of Lightning and the Trickster Duology. Tricksters are slippery, charming and how the reader perceives them often depends on how the author writes their relationships with other characters. Join us as we figure out what makes them so compelling!

Trail of Lightning- Rebecca Roan Horse

Trickster Duology- Tamora Pierce

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms- N.K. Jemisin

Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman

The Grace of Kings- Ken Liu