John Helps You Write Better

In today's episode I have a few things to say about all the different divides we have about how to write a story. This one goes to some places. Strap in.

Here today for you I have a question that didn't make this week's Chat - how do you handle characters moving so frequently from place to place? (Hint: it's not as complicated as some people make it)

In today's episode I have a few things to say about how we get better as writers.

In this week's Chat, I talk about publishing via blogpost, trusting yourself creatively, writing while depressed, how much of an asshole I used to be, and a few horror movies to help you write better

Hey, can we talk about how you describe stuff?

NOTE: this one is a little on the long side (1 hr, 40ish minutes), but I think this is going to help you if you're the sort of writer who has plenty of reasons to tell the world why you're having tro…

In today's episode I talk a lot about what it means to be good enough, why I don't want to be an agent, how to market things, why no one should care about speed, and whether or not there's a muse. Th…

In today's episode, I want to talk to you about time. This episode is particularly good for people who often think they're not writing fast enough or doing enough or that they need to be doing more i…

In today's episode, I talk about resistance, fear, and how you're good enough to do more than exhaust yourself.

In today's episode I talk about the action economy and how it's just not for big climaxes.

In today's episode, I want to talk about how you define what's "good" from wasn't.

Here are 5 things you might be doing in your work and what to do about them.

In today's chat, I talk about believing in yourself, starting over, being in first person, bokeh, beta readers, ARC readers, throwing a hissy fit on social media, and being very busy.

In today's episode, let's talk about focus.

Let's put words to our fears and see what that does for our creativity.

We wrap up our series on art and audience by looking at how exactly we build this audience we wanted.

Time to talk about part 4 of our series, where we set up our own terms of service.

Here's part 3 in our on-going series about art and the audience.

This week on the Chat I talk about protests, publishing faults, beating Amazon, believing in yourself, fighting overthinking, and the fact that the 1980s are historical fiction.

Continuing our series on developing relationships with the reader through our art, here's part 2 where I'm talking about the importance of common ground.