Write Better, Author Smarter with Autumn Bardot

There's a a whole host of spine-tingling, soul-stealing, heart-wrenching, frightening, horrifying, and petrifying things that can happen when you're a writer and author. It comes with the territory. And it’s part of the learning curve.    Writing, marketing, and all that author stuff means going way out of our comfort zone, so there are lots of chances to get it wrong and make mistakes. Some mistakes are more horrific than others. But there is an upside! 

 How many of these things happened to you? Or have you had other horrors related to writing? Please leave a comment and share the horror!

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Are you trying to do it all, write more books, market more books, promote more books, post more on social media, and do more more more? Then this video is for you. Having a goals, aspirations, and vision for your writing future is wonderful and necessary, but sometimes pushing ourselves beyond the limit neglects the also important things that bring us joy and contentment.  

 This is a personal look at why I had to get off the writing hamster wheel to live my best writing life.

  ✅  For and in-depth look at techniques to master showing not telling and ways to amplify characterization take my MASTER CLASS,  The Power of Archetype & Write a More Masterful Sentence  A great story has great characters. Memorable characters that leap from the page do more than just entertain. The reader relates and learns from them. Discover how to create believable and nuanced characters that drive plot and enhance conflict by teasing out all the strengths and weaknesses found in archetypes.   

There are many ways to tell a story and even more ways to write the scenes and sentences within. An ordinary sentence may move the plot forward, but a masterful sentence or scene does so much more! A purpose-driven scene enhances mood, tone, characterization, conflict, plot, theme, and emotion. Discover the author techniques and literary devices to create evocative and layered prose that transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.  

This course provides both a literary and real-life approach to: • characterization • archetypes • authorial techniques • literary devices  that will help you master the art of ‘showing vs telling’. 

 *** You also get feedback on 10-pages of your manuscript.***   

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These 10 rules have helped me live a more satisfied and happier writing life. They were learned the hard way.  Juggling writing with working or other full-time responsibilities is often a daily and ongoing struggle of time management and expectations.  It can be disappointing and frustrating. Experience is a great but brutal teacher, yet one that helped me to come to terms with my life, available time, resources, and expectations.  Maybe they will help you too.

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 This episode breaks down the writing process into 5 stages that writers go through with their first novel. Writing, learning to write, understanding the craft, and implementing the strategies to write a great novel is a process. One that cannot be rushed.   

Writers are a special breed. Our imaginations push us to create worlds and characters out of thin air. No easy task. But it is a labor of love and, for many writers, something that fills our soul, brings us joy, and gives us a sense of purpose. Is this you?   Are you a beginner writer? Is this your first novel? Second? Third? Maybe you’re a pro. Whether this is your first or your hundredth, writing is an act of sheer creative will, determination, and perseverance. Let’s embrace it all!   

Hi, I’m Autumn Bardot, author, mom, grand mom, wife, language arts teacher, and more. Writing is my passion. I wish I had more time to do it! Looking forward to retirement when I can devote more time to getting the stories in my head OUT.

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Go deep into your story’s setting with these hints for making it an immersive experience. Setting is important to character arc, conflict, themes, and so much more. It’s important to be there, in the space, feel the air, taste, touch and hear the setting that your characters are in.  It helps you add more depth and nuance to your characters and their conflict. 

Unfortunately most of us do not have the ability or opportunity to write in the place or time of our story.  But there are ways to get around that.

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'Every no brings you closer to a yes' is an often told reply heard by writers lamenting their rejections. It's nice to hear and gives struggling writers hope. Nice but not true. Here's why and, more importantly, why rejection is not as bad as you think.

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This channel is all about writing tips, author tricks, and inspiration for living your best writing life. Many authors and writers must juggle writing time with family, full-time jobs, and time-consuming responsibilities. It’s frustrating to be sure, but it is possible to write a book, learn the craft, and get all that authoring stuff done. 

A huge welcome to all the writers and authors who need no nonsense, honest information and tips from a traditionally and indie published author with too much to her To Do list.  Thank you for watching. I value and appreciate your support, subscriptions, likes, and comments!  

This week’s episode is about all the great things a stylesheet can do for you. How it can make your editing life a little bit easier and less frustrating and help you think like a copy editor. 

 A list of possible items for your personalized stylesheet can be found at Club Autumn on FaceBook. Make sure to answer the 2 questions, otherwise I think you’re a bot.  You can also find the list and more tips on my website at: https://autumnbardot.com/writing-tips-tricks/ 

✅ MASTER CLASS The Power of Archetype & Write a more Masterful Sentence A great story has great characters. Memorable characters that leap from the page do more than just entertain. The reader relates and learns from them. Understand how to create believable and nuanced characters that drive plot and enhance conflict by teasing out all the strengths and weaknesses found in archetypes.  

here are many ways to tell a story and an infinite number of ways to write the sentences that tell the story.  A mediocre sentence may move the plot forward, but a masterful sentence enhances the mood, tone, characterization, conflict, plot, theme, and emotion. Discover the author techniques and literary devices to create evocative and layered prose that transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.  https://www.udemy.com/course/the-power-of-archetype-write-a-more-masterful-sentence/?referralCode=F520EC671005635E15CA

Learning to identify showing vs telling is a challenge for new writers, and writing it is even trickier, but it can and should be mastered so that you can take your story skills to the next level.  After filming this, I thought of even better ways to write those showing sentence examples.  Revisions revisions revisions....it's a thing!  LOL.

MASTER CLASS The Power of Archetype & Write a more Masterful Sentence  https://www.udemy.com/course/the-power-of-archetype-write-a-more-masterful-sentence/?referralCode=F520EC671005635E15CA WEBSITE http://www.autumnbardot.com

There is a lot to learn about writing and authoring but these are the 8 that resonated the most with me.

What happens when you want to write a novel but life and work make it almost impossible? Is there any way to squeeze in some precious writing or do you need to postpone your writing ambitions?   This episode is a real life look at a work schedule change that took away valuable writing time and the tough decision I had to make about working on a current novel.