WRITE NOW! Workshop Podcast: Write a Book, Change the World with Kitty Bucholtz

Ep 296E Is your brain spinning with all your to do list items? Are you spiraling downward with frustrations? Are you moving so fast and accomplishing so much that you don't take time to acknowledge yourself? Maybe it's time to...take a moment.

If you'd like to send me your story about how perimenopause or menopause affected you as a writer, please email me at kitty AT kittybucholtz DOT com and put MENOPAUSE in the subject line. I'd like to add more stories besides mine to the book I'm writing.

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Ep 295I In today's episode, Bill Birchard talks to Kitty about his book, Writing for Impact: 8 Secrets From Science That Will Fire Up Your Readers' Brains. We recorded this on May 23, 2023, but I wasn't able to post it then. I think you're going to find some great tips here!

https://billbirchard.com/

If you'd like to send me your story about how perimenopause or menopause affected you as a writer, please email me at kitty AT kittybucholtz DOT com and put MENOPAUSE in the subject line. I'd like to add more stories besides mine to the book I'm writing.

Join my Patreon membership for free or at the $5 a month level at https://www.patreon.com/kittybucholtz ! Happy Writing!

Ep 294I - Award-winning author Amanda Cox talks with Kitty about her book He Should Have Told the Bees, and discusses character and plot, which comes first for her. Then the conversation turns to intuitive writing. Amanda shares her process and encourages writers to find what works for them.

https://amandacoxwrites.com/

[This episode was originally recorded on June 28, 2023, and delayed due to Kitty's health issues. Happy to finally air it!]

Kitty Bucholtz and the Write Now Workshop Podcast is back! In this Encouraging Words episode (#293), Kitty explains her absence, chats about upcoming changes, and encourages listeners to think about what they want to start, what they want to stop, and what they want to change in the new year.

Episode 292: In the return of Write Now Workshop Podcast after a too-long sabbatical, Kitty joins Podcasthon (https://www.podcasthon.org/) and over 1000 other podcasters around the world who are highlighting their favorite charity. Today we welcome back Bonnie DePue and CHUM Therapeutic Riding (https://www.chumtherapy.net/), Kitty’s favorite charity!

Learn more about CHUM and what they do and how you can support them, and writers will find encouragement and ideas on how to add real-life charities to their stories to increase reader engagement.

Alessandra Torre is our guest today sharing her top 4 take-aways from just the marketing portion of the 2022 Inkers Con writers conference. (Not even her top 4 overall!) If you'd like to sign up for the conference, you can still access the digital version -- and Alessandra kindly gave us a $50 off coupon! Enter the code WNWPODCAST at Inkers Con to get your discount!

Download the Author Assessment Worksheet today! A gift from Alessandra!

EPISODE 290T

Podcast favorite Susan May Warren, author of the new novel Sundown, shares how she manages her time as she creates a book series.

Research, plotting, writing, she's got a time block for each piece. Listen to her process so you can figure out how to hone your own. Learn more about Susie May and all of her books, including nonfiction books for writers, at https://www.susanmaywarren.com/

Watch Kitty's free Masterclass series on writing at https://www.youtube.com/kittybucholtz for help on how to write more with less stress and more peace and joy. Available through December 31, 2022. Get $400 off the six-month Finish Your Book Group Coaching Program by using the coupon code "2022" through January 1, 2023! A great gift for yourself or another writer you love!

EPISODE 289

Today's guest is Suzanne Woods Fisher, author of the new novel Anything But Plain. She shares a great presentation with ten things she learned during her writing career that she wants to pass on to you.

You can find Suzanne at https://suzannewoodsfisher.com/

EPISODE 288E

I'm wearing my "How to Spot a Hero" Spider-Man T-shirt as I record this episode. YOU are the hero! And you can be the person who is the hero to someone else! You can be the person who writes a book that changes people's lives. Even just one life changed would be worth our time. Are you willing to keep working at it and make the world a better place?

EPISODE 287T

Our guest today is award-winning author Susan May Warren teaching us how to write a series.

There are several kinds of series and first Susie May explains them all. Then she shows us how to write a compelling series that readers can't stop reading. Plus she gives us a fantastic tip that we can use to help readers jump into a longer series.

Click below to get the wonderful handout Susie May gave us! And be sure to check out Sunrise, her latest book one in a series and one of the books we used for some of the examples, as well as Sunburst (June 7, 2022) and Sundown (Nov 1, 2022) to see how she puts a series together. (Also great books! I've read the first and preordered the others.)

Building a Powerful Series handout