Teaching Myself to Write Novels
Join me, Briauna, along my journey of writing my first novel. I'll share resources I find useful, my ups and downs, my revelations, and I'll try to get better at this podcast thing along the way. My episodes are mostly unfiltered and recorded as I discover and realize new things. Sign up for updates: http://eepurl.com/g1Zj6b About me: http://briaunamariah.com
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 73
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
'Show Don't Tell' and Other 'Rules'
How tips and tricks have changed my entire writing style and what to be aware of in your own writing.
At then end I talk about the concepts from and read from the following article:
https://theconversa…
Slow Progress is Progress
Listen to the next session in my "Story Grid with Randy & Laura" installment.
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Opening Music:
Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmm…
Pt 2: Story Grid Session w Randy Surles And Laura Graves
I hope you enjoy my second recorded session with Story Grid editors Randy & Laura, following the first brainstorm session (episode 24, published in July) I had with them. Slow progress is still progr…
Brainspace is Valuable Real Estate
Just giving you a little update with nuggets of useful info!
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Opening Music:
Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/334…
Story Grid Brainstorm Session w Randy Surles And Laura Graves
Progress is slow on this next book. I hope you enjoy my recorded session with Story Grid editors Randy & Laura! I have no time & wish I were writing more. But at least I'm writing! (And plotting! Sti…
My Own Personal Character Arc
Today's podcast features: Allergies. How my queries are going. How my plotting is going (not well). Having my own whole entire personal character arc. Finding my inner artist. Breaking my non-writing…
Queries, plots, and arcs oh my
Sometimes I make a lot of sense. Sometimes I make no sense. You decide. I talk mostly about character arcs in this episode as I try to make sense of them myself.
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Bare Minimum Editing
I think this one is actually pretty useful, especially if you need permission to be lazy with your edits. Stick around for the bonus update (from today, April 25th) at the end.
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Using a synopsis to come up with ideas
Recorded this right after I posted the last one. I talk about aliens :)
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Opening Music:
Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.i…
Beginning to End
Took me a minute to make this live! Thanks for listening. I can't guarantee consistency of these episodes but I do plan to keep going! (with writing and with the podcast)
I mention Margie Lawson in th…
Break The Rules
Give yourself to permission to break/change/amend whatever rules you want.
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Opening Music:
Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusi…
Developmental Editing Chat w/ Jenn Windrow
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Margie Lawson references here: https://www.margielawson.com/
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Opening Music:
Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod
Lin…
Answering Questions
Forget backstory. CONTEXT is everything.
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Opening Music:
Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3347-airport-lounge
Lice…
Stop Rushing
Just an update on where I'm at post-nano and a new word I invented.
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Opening Music:
Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod
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NaNo: Captain's Log
Welp, that was interesting. Given the date of this episode, you can safely assume I did not complete NaNo. But I did not fail at it.
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Airport…
Do Anything
I have a backlog of episodes because of computer issues, so enjoy! I'm trying to be Tony Robbins in this episode & hardly talk about writing, but I think you'll get something out of it!
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The Argument for a Cruddy Draft
I have a backlog of episodes because of computer issues, so enjoy! I've decided to be a crazy work-a-holic (nothing new there) and try NaNoWriMo for the first draft of the next book I plan to write -…
How to Conceal a Surprise
Recorded pre-US election: As I re-read the Harry Potter books, I found a pretty cool thing Rowling did to conceal a surprise in book 3. Somehow, I managed to imitate that structure. I blame it on my …
Writing Weaknesses
Comparing ourselves to other writers' journeys can be fun... until it's not.
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Opening Music:
Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmu…
Stuck? Rethink Story Structure
Some audio issues mostly in the beginning - sorry! Tis' the life of a multitasker. Almost lost this morning's writing (but didn't! *phew*)
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