John Helps You Write Better

In today's episode I want to talk to you about some risks in being a creative and what to do about any of them.

So I forgot to record the Chat audio. If you're looking for the Chat, it's up on YouTube. What I've got for you today is a few selected questions with better answers.

In today's episode I want to tell you a story about what I used to do and what I'm doing again.

In today's episode, we should talk about marketing. And risk. And vulnerability. And being a person.

And here we are at the very end of ESIAC, where we talk about what is normally the most visual part of the process. So of course I'm going to cover it in a non-visual medium. Today I want to talk to …

In today's podcast I want to talk to you about voice and load you up with a few things to think about as we distinguish not only character voices but also narrative and authorial voices. Yeah, this o…

In our continuing discussions about how every sentence should be a camera for the reader to put a movie in their mind, I'm going to talk to you about a writing intangible: mood and how it's like air.…

In this week's Writers Chat I talk about setting goals, writing experts, narrative risk, planning sequels, and trying new holes.

I've got to figure out a better naming convention for this series. In today's episode we continue ESIAC by talking about pacing.

In today's episode I talk about what the plan is for a week of podcasting as well as helping you improve your dialogue.

It's time to talk about doing your best, when and where and why.

Let's talk about shovels and premises and complexity.

In this week's Chat I talk about comparing yourself to other people, organizing your ideas, flash fiction, and how to arrange sensory information, among other things. This one's a good one.

In today's episode, I have some feelings about making George Carlin into some AI garbage.

Getting back to work after a cold, in today's episode I tell you about a conversation I had last week.

I've got a cold. There's a Chat today, no workshop tonight, and everything gets back on track next week.

In today's episode, Vin Diesel and I remind you that you make art for you and not everyone's going to understand it.

In today's episode, I want to talk to your about what editing is and what it isn't ... and how you should be paying for it.

So ... booktube ... is that helping anyone?

In tonight's workshop, I talk about themes. What they are, what they aren't, how to do anything with them, and how to use them effectively.