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
You're good enough to do better.
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about those breaks you've been taking and the things you've been afraid of.
There isn't a wrong way to outline
In today's episode, I want to talk you about your outline and about what it needs to do.
6 more writing exercises for you
In today's Writers Chat, I've got six more exercises and things to think about when it comes to helping your story gain better plots, characters, and worlds.
A quick note to writers on TikTok looking for advice
In today's episode, I want to address writers on TikTok who are still writing their books while also taking shots of advice to the face from all corners.
How do you know when you have enough detail?
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about how you're describing things and when enough's enough.
INTERVIEW WITH AN AUTHOR!! Erin Lodes has a book, you should read it
In today's very special episode, I talk to an author who I've known for years about her process and her debut novel, out later this week.
For more details about Erin, head to http://linktr.ee/erinwri…
A writing exercise about stakes
Following up on the previous discussion of stakes, here's an exercise to help you sort out your stakes.
Your Guide to Stakes
In this week's Writers Chat I thought we should talk about stakes - what they are and aren't, how to use them, and why they matter.
I've got some vulnerability exercises for you today.
In today's episode, I challenge you to take a look at yourself and write about what you see.
This is an episode where I encourage you to be vulnerable.
In today's episode I'm going to ask you to bravely take a look at yourself and use what you see to fuel your writing.
Don't worry, you're an artist.
In today's episode, we need to talk about what makes you an artist.
Can we talk about your worldbuilding?
In today's episode I bring up 3 things maybe you haven't considered when it comes to how you're building the world of your story.
A few words about show and tell and putting a movie in the reader's mind
In today's Writers Chat, I want to talk to you about Chekov, a jerk named Lubbock, showing, telling, how you express your story in the reader's imagination.
We need to have a few words (and a tool) about theme
In today's episode, I've got a tool for you to help get your themes organized and represented in your manuscript.
David Milch has a different way of thinking about characters.
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about how David Milch sees characters.
We're going to talk about talking.
In today's episode, let's have a dialogue about your dialogue.
Would you like 6 writing exercises?
Here's the audio from today's 2 HOUR workshop covering some basic writing exercises and tools for telling your story better.
How to describe things.
In today's episode, I want to answer one of the most basic writing questions - How do you describe something to the reader?
It's important to change focus from time to time.
In today's episode I want to talk to you about a shift in my thinking.
A chatless Writers Chat for 3.5
In this week's pre-recorded Writers Chat, I'm answering questions about genres, tension, organizing your story, publishing decisions, marketing, sales figures, and bad mental health days.