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
Why are you waiting?
In today's episode, I want to ask you about why you're waiting and not making art.
The anti-pants system of writing
In today's episode, I would like to tell you how to get away from pantsing forever.
The #1 excuse of pantsing.
In today's episode, I want to take the bite out of pantsing's number one excuse.
Pantsing is making it harder for you to succeed, here's why
In today's episode, I want to keep talking to you about pantsing. It's a theme all week.
Why Pantsing is Bad, part 1
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about why pantsing is ruining your writing.
You should be reading critically
In today's episode, I want to explain what people mean when they say you should read more.
At and To and With
In today's episode, let's talk about how we talk to or at or with our readers.
"New" and "experienced" are labels that don't matter
In today's episode, I want to explain how two labels so many writers use don't actually matter.
Can you connect with someone else?
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about abandoning the right/wrong dynamic.
The audio-only re-do of the Writers Chat for 11-19
In this re-do of a crashed stream, I answer questions about the state of the world, webnovels as pulps, cozy mysteries, grammar, and two brothers. Lots of good stuff here.
How's that voice going?
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about your voice and how you can be using it do to what you want.
Are you asking questions in your exposition?
In today's episode I want to talk to you about those times where you're asking the reader questions directly in the text.
11-12-24 Writers Chat
In this week's Writers Chat, I answer questions about insecurity, editors, prologues, conversations, payment plans, and genres.
How familiar are you with your genre?
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about genre and conventions.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about not trying so hard to do something "new" in your writing.
We all face stairs.
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about my mom and some stairs.
Some disjointed thoughts on art and no one seeing it
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about what happens if you paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling in your garage.
Don't forget to connect to your reader
In today's episode I want to talk to you about your reader and the bridge you're trying to build to them.
What kind of backstory are you writing?
In today's episode I want to talk to you about the backstory you're using.