Writing with Friends
We’re BJ and Hillary— college friends turned writing pals. This podcast is our quest for the best writing tips and tools for our own projects, and yours too! Let’s get started.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 9 minutes
- Episodes
- 86
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Tool Deep Dive: Scrivener Writing Software
Welcome to a tool deep dive episode, where we highlight the features and the challenges of a tool we think you’ll find helpful as a writer. And the tool we’ll be talking about today is Scrivener, our…
Character Spectrums and the Zettelkasten Notetaking System
We’ll be talking about character spectrums. More specifically, we’ll be covering Brandon Sanderson’s sliding scales for writing a character: likability, proactivity, and competence. And our tool tip …
Conceptualizing the Muse and Grammar Apps
We’ll be discussing the muse– where our writing inspiration comes from and why the way we conceptualize inspiration can have an impact on our writing practice. And our tool tip of the week is grammar…
How Often to Use Adverbs and the Writing Sprint
We’ll be talking about how often we should use adverbs in our writing and addressing Steven King’s adverb advice in particular. And our tool tip of the week is setting up a distraction-free writing e…
Writing Workshops and Text to Speech Tools
Writing workshops are the best way we’ve found to breathe new life into stale drafts and get the encouragement and camaraderie you need to stay the course on the sometimes lonely path of consistent w…
Trailer
Welcome to Writing with Friends! We’re writers and friends on a quest to improve our creative writing craft. And along the way, we’ll be sharing our best tips, insights, and the writing tools we love…