John Helps You Write Better
John Helps You Write Better is your all-in-one better-than-college help and advice in writing and publishing your books. It's all about giving you the career as a successful author you've always dreamed of.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 300
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Opening 2024 with a delightful Writers Chat
In today's Writer Chat I talk about growth curves, meet-cutes, meet-sads, revision, and how editors make deadlines. It was great to be back to Chat.
A great episode to start 2024 with
Hey look, it's a new year. Let's talk about writing.
Get ready for 2024 with this episode
Here we are at the end of 2023. How are your sleeves?
How are your expectations doing?
In today's episode, we need to talk about your expectations.
Having a voice and using it
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about your voice.
The pre-end-of-year housekeeping episode
In today's episode, I tell you what to expect.
What to do when something you believed about yourself isn't true
In today's episode, I want to tell you about how a discovery I made is changing about 99% of what I planned for 2024.
How to build threat and make characters work a little
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about threats and challenges but talking to you about a chicken.
The action-packed final Writers Chat of 2023 (see you in 2024)
In today's Chat, the last of the year, I answer some great questions about popular books, writing dialogue, making RPGs, word count, and being better than not-good-enough.
This is the final Writers Ch…
Setting goals that you'll actually accomplish
How do we run marathons? One step at a time.
Here are 2 things I'd like you to stop doing at the end of the year
At the end of every year, writers congregate for two performative exercises. Here's why you shouldn't do either of them.
Why does it matter how fast you're going?
And now, a few words for the "it's taking too long to do this" crowd.
BONUS EPISODE!! Give this to writers who are struggling with traditional publishing
Hey, if you're a writer dealing with traditional publishing and you're having a hard time, this one is for you. And when you want some help (FOR FREE) come check out johnhelpsyouwritebetter.com
How to set some goals that aren't ridiculous
Let's take a few minutes today to talk about how you're setting yourself up to succeed or fail.
A packed full of thought Writers Chat for 12.12
In today's Chat I talked about being in your own way, how to build cyberpunk, how to revise, and why Emily Mortimer is kind of a trope.
Work on yourself to work on your goals
In today's episode, I want to bring up the idea of you being more than your goals.
Amazon is a company town
Hey, have you thought about the big giant publisher everyone insists on using?
Listen to this one if you're worried what people will say about what you're writing
Hi. Can we talk for a second about those people how always seem to have an opinion about you and what you're doing?
Two editorial philosophies
In today's episode, I want to tell about two of the ways editors think about whatever a writer is writing. These aren't the only ways, they're just two common ones.
A technically imperiled Writers Chat for 12.5
Okay so this is version 1 (there are 3 versions recorded now) of the Writers Chat for 12.5. If this version sounds terrible, let me know, and I'll put up a different version. So many technical error…