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Write Through The Roof | For writers who want to improve their writing episodes
- #36 – Michelle Worthington – Write Through The Roof
Welcome to Write Through The Roof, the podcast for writers who want to improve their craft.
Episode 36 with Michelle Worthington – award-winning picture book author“Kids are so bombarded with visuals these days, they love verbal storytelling.”
Episode 36 – Michelle Worthington – Show Notes- Picture books can be scribbled on the back of napkin or receipt
- Learning the industry & the craft after getting the first book published
- Coffee and Mum chocolate
- Writing a story for one person in particular. Empowering kids who are not represented in other books.
- Reading and ask your audience what they’re reading and why they like it.
- Talking with teachers about child development and the stages.
- Be a lifelong learner
- Authors are small businesses. The best businesses are the best storytellers.
The story you create around yourself as an author. Creating your author brand.- Publishers are looking for people to work with, not stories
- 80s picture books with Australian voice; Mem Fox, Mulga Bill, Man From Snowy River, YA, Stephen King, Jackie French, Nevermore
- Pugs Don’t Wear Pyjamas based on a real person with a real pug.
- Worries about creativity after publishing fifteen books. Stop and listen to your creative voice.
- Coming up – Beards and Middle Grade fiction
“Lovely words that not only look good but sound good too.”
“Authors are small businesses.”
Links- Michelle Worthington
- Sharing Your Story
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34 min - #35 – Shona Husk – Write Through The Roof
Welcome to Write Through The Roof, the podcast for writers who want to improve their craft.
Episode 35 with Shona Husk – speculative fiction romance author“I like a fast and dirty draft.”
Episode 35 – Shona Husk – Show Notes- Writes quickly but as a plotter, edits aren’t generally structural
- Dark mint chocolate, not coffee
- Dark angsty and tortured heroes
- Every other genre plus romance
- Write novellas to learn characterisation and three act structure
- Learning – Stealing Hollywood by Alexandra Sokoloff, podcasts, the Story Grid and movies as a reference
- Katharine Kerr, Marie Brennan, Jim Butcher
- Different dynamics in heterosexual, gay and lesbian romance
- Servant of The Forest: YA Cinderella re-telling
- Hybrid publishing – write first and then look for the right market
- Ballet classes as research for writing
“All the wonderful world building with a happily-ever-after.”
“I write faster with chocolate.”
Links- Shona Husk
- Twitter
- Facebook
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26 min - #34 – Fiona Ross – Write Through The Roof
Welcome to Write Through The Roof, the podcast for writers who want to improve their craft.
Episode 34 with Fiona Ross – songwriter, singer & jazz journalist“I get more creative and crazy as the day goes on.”
Episode 34 – Fiona Ross – Show Notes- Go with the flow – music and lyrics go together
- A late night writer – daytime writing doesn’t feel right
- Piano, pencil, notebook and cup of tea
- Songwriting is always inspired by a personal experience.
- Journalism and interviews – the purpose is to reveal the person being interviewed
- Discovering journalism voice – it’s about the artist
- Interviewing legends, jazz history and research. Women in jazz and bringing jazz up to date
- To Kill a Mockingbird, F Scott Fitzgerald, Upton Sinclair, Ricki Lee Jones, Billy Joel
- Family history of writers
- Didn’t set out to write a concept album but ‘Black, White and a Little Bit of Grey’ has an intertwining story
- Marketing and genre
“I won the reading cup when I was at primary school.”
“If I’m not jazz and I’m not pop, what am I?”
Links- FionaRoss.co.uk
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Instagram
- YouTube
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34 min - #33 – Kim Newman – Write Through The Roof
Welcome to Write Through The Roof, the podcast for writers who want to improve their craft.
Episode 33 with Kim Newman – novelist & film critic“My novels are my purest me.”
Episode 33 – Kim Newman – Show Notes- Novels as favourite medium, loose outlines and historical research
- Takeout coffee and working in the dressing gown
- As a critic putting people into boxes but as a writer refusing to be put in a box
- Reading, time and never having had a real job
- The way writing as a career has changed since 1980s
- Buying first computer with money from writing for porn magazines with Neil Gaiman
- Editors used to have more time to deal with and develop new writers
- Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Patrick Hamilton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allen Poe, Ramsay Campbell, Peter Straub, David Thomson, Greil Marcus
- Criticism and deadlines
- The need for a continuity person during novel writing
- Big file full of random film quotes
“Some people don’t realise I’m the same person.”
“My critical range is not good or bad but interesting or dull.”
Links- Kim Newmans’s website
- Twitter (for obscure movie quotes)
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44 min - #32 – Margaret Skea – Write Through The Roof
Welcome to Write Through The Roof, the podcast for writers who want to improve their craft.
Episode 32 with Margaret Skea – historical fiction writer“I like taking myself and my readers to a place we’ve never been.”
Episode 32 – Margaret Skea – Show Notes- Storyboard on cardboard with post-it notes
- Silence, chocolate & freedom from distractions
- Exploring conflict and tribalism after growing up in the Troubles.
- Self-editing, being ruthless, editing as a puzzle
- Details, getting research wrong and rabbits
- Journey into historical fiction
- Trying writing in 1st person and present tense
- Katharine Luther as a shadowy character and inspired by 500th anniversary of the Reformation
- Winston Graham, Daphne du Maurier, Rumer Godden
“The more words I lose in the editing process, the more successful I think the editing is.”
“A good editor challenges me.”
Links- Margaret Skea
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Book Depository
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33 min - #31 – Josh Larsen – Write Through The Roof
Welcome to Write Through The Roof, the podcast for writers who want to improve their craft.
Episode 31 with Josh Larsen – film critic, editor & broadcaster“Sometimes it’s not fair to the film to dash something off the hour after you’ve seen it.”
Episode 31 – Josh Larsen – Show Notes- Editing every day
- Writing outside with tea or an IPA
- Daily newspaper movie criticism background
- Pop culture and faith, akin to feminist film criticism
- Working with good editors, the demise of newspaper industry
- Still wrapping mind around faith based film criticism
- Horror movies and faith
- Print deadlines – stressful but the best training. A negative can be writing too quickly
- Manohla Dargis, Richard Brody, Dana Stevens, Roger Ebert, Pauline Kael
“I miss having an editor to bounce ideas off.”
“There’s no time for writers block. It’s a luxury.”
Links- Larsen on Film
- Twitter
- Letterboxd
- Think Christian
- Filmspotting Podcast
- Movies are Prayers
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21 min - #30 – Angela Savage – Write Through The Roof
Welcome to Write Through The Roof, the podcast for writers who want to improve their craft.
Episode 30 with Angela Savage – award winning writer & Director of Writers Victoria“Good strong writing comes from using simple words in a compelling way”
Episode 30 – Angela Savage – Show Notes- Writing on the train and “the work of the couch”
- Inspired by songwriters like Springsteen, Waits and Earl
- Wine for writing like drinking when playing pool
- South East Asia, reproductive health, kinship, culture and human nature
- “Just get the story down”
- Reading, study the craft, learning, playing with verbs, mentoring
- Critical reading – underlining and making notes in books
- Why crime fiction is so pleasurable for some readers
- Overdoing the research in historical fiction
- Inspired by Emma Viskic, Julie Koh, Barbara Kingsolver, Christos Tsiolkas
- Deadlier – 100 of the best crime stories written by women
- Daughter as sensitivity reader
“My writing was inspired by the fact no one wanted to hear my travel stories.”
“You need to know how it ends to know how it begins.”
Links- www.angelasavage.wordpress.com
- Angela Savage on Twitter
- Writers Victoria
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29 min - #29 – Lara Meone Savine – Write Through The Roof
Welcome to Write Through The Roof, the podcast for writers who want to improve their craft.
Episode 29 with Lara Meone Savine – writer & editor of Musae Mosiac“I have to be creatively engaged everyday or I’d go insane.”
Episode 29 – Lara Meone Savine – Show Notes- Getting into a mindset and committing to a project
- Friday Phrases #FP flash fiction. A mini release of creativity
- The rewards as a host of word game prompts
- Safety jacket, tea and K-Pop
- The journey of the mind and the soul. Symbology of dreams
- Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to focus energies
- Tolkien, King, Chris Mahan, Keats, Coleridge
- Developing “Neuro Creative Reinforcement” techniques
- Musae Mosiac magazine, 200 Word Tuesday #200WT and community
“K-Pop is super important to my writing.”
“With a destructive mindset, I can’t be creative.”
Links- Musae Mosiac
- Musae Mosiac on Twitter and Facebook
- Lara Meone Savine on Twitter
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33 min - #28 – Andrew David Barker – Write Through The Roof
Welcome to Write Through The Roof, the podcast for writers who want to improve their craft.
Episode 28 with Andrew David Barker – author and film-maker“When you finish something, it gives you the fire to do more.”
Episode 28 – Andrew David Barker – Show Notes- Pantser for fiction, Plotter for screenplays
- Fueled by independent US film makers; Duplass Brothers and Joe Swanberg
- Writing about 80s kids and movies as backdrops. Harking back to period which personally inspired the creative life
- Wayward journey into writing; leaving school with reading and writing difficulties, self education
- Finish everything
- Playing with Point of View
- Stephen King, Spielberg, Scorsese, Paul Auster, Cormac McCarthy, Bret Easton Ellis
- Screen adaption of own novel – screenplays are all story, everything has to drive the story forward
- Screen writing teaches a minimal and clean approach to prose
- Renaissance of the novella
- Making short films
“I’m a creative cannibal.”
“I use movies like John Grisham uses lawyers.”
Links- Twitter
- Instagram
- Amazon
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39 min - #27 – Charles Chu – Write Through The Roof
Welcome to Write Through The Roof, the podcast for writers who want to improve their craft.
Episode 27 with Charles Chu – non-fiction writer & Medium top contributor“You need to do a little guerrilla warfare as a new writer.”
Episode 27 – Charles Chu – Show Notes- Starting with an emotion or aesthetic in essays and non-fiction
- Walking as a ritual and Japanese coffee
- As a Chinese American growing up in a white culture
- Psychology first – consistency, then building on improving writing practice
- Writing for the internet; how digestible is the writing? Trial and error approach
- John McPhee, On Writing Well by William Zinsser, copywriting
- Moving into fiction; the Year of 100 Rejections
- Gene Wolfe, Haruki Murakami, Ken Liu
- Juggling lots of projects to balance out the failures
- Ray Bradbury inspiring the year of 100 rejections
- Tips on how to get stories featured on Medium
“I grew as a child questioning where my place was.”
“Visualising things from the reader’s perspective.”
“Reframing failure as something I should try to do.”
Links- Charles Chu
- The Polymath Project
- The Year of 100 Rejections
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