In today's episode, I want to remind you why you shouldn't keep changing your art to be whatever's selling well at the moment.

In today's episode, I want to tell you about the choice you face every minute of every day about what you can and what you can't control.

In today's episode, I want to talk to you about how feelings hit the page.

In today's episode, I want to talk to you about your marketing. And your you-ness.

In today's episode I want to talk to you about how you can draw the reader in only to reveal Bruce Willis is dead the whole time.

In this week's stream (on a Monday?!) I want to talk to you about building, developing, and fixing your plot.

In today's episode I want to talk you about how stories are like dancing.

In today's episode, I want to tell you about some people and a mud puddle.

In today's episode, I want to talk to you about my inbox and what it can teach us both about how we approach our creative lives.

In this week's Chat, I want to talk to you about 5 components of what you're writing. WARNING: this one is information dense. You'll want to take some notes.

In today's episode I ask you a follow-up question about what else you might be paying attention to.

In today's episode I ask you a simple question - are you paying attention?

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.

In today's episode, I want to talk you about your outline and about what it needs to do.

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.

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.

In today's episode, I want to talk to you about how you're describing things and when enough's enough.

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/erinwritesthings

Following up on the previous discussion of stakes, here's an exercise to help you sort out your 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.

In today's episode, I challenge you to take a look at yourself and write about what you see.

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.

In today's episode, we need to talk about what makes you an artist.

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.

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.

In today's episode, I've got a tool for you to help get your themes organized and represented in your manuscript.

In today's episode, I want to talk to you about how David Milch sees characters.

In today's episode, let's have a dialogue about your dialogue.

Here's the audio from today's 2 HOUR workshop covering some basic writing exercises and tools for telling your story better.

In today's episode, I want to answer one of the most basic writing questions - How do you describe something to the reader?

In today's episode I want to talk to you about a shift in my thinking.

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.

In today's episode, I want to you think about the questions you ask, and if you've ever been on a diving board.

In today's episode, I want to talk to you about the downsides and upsides of starting something new when you're not sure what to write.

In today's episode, I want to talk to you about how dull things can be when they're perfect.

In today's episode (sorry it's out late), I want to talk to you about characters and readers.

In this week's Writers Chat, I answer questions about being overwhelmed, finishing your work, some fundamental starting points, and immune systems.

In today's episode, I want to talk to you about some dangerous that we should all stop accepting as normal and good and right.

In today's episode, I want to talk to you about the person on the other end of you book.

Be your best self.

In this week's Writers Chat, I answer questions about: getting dropped by a publisher; what to do with Larry the wizard; naming gods; handling your back catalogue; skipping query letters, and why I do what I do.

In today's episode I want to bring up some bad habits, what to do about them, and trying to put an eye on your own.

In today's episode, I want to talk to you about a question a lot of writers ask themselves.

In today's episode, I want to tell you about spicy paninis. Or something.

In this week's Writers Chat, I talk about why GoodReads and the "spicy" label are garbage; how to market your work; how to take writing more seriously; how to help other people take your writing more seriously; how to use a pen name; what makes YA a YA; and flesh swords.

In today's episode, I'd like to invite you to be your own boss and do your writing job.

In today's episode, I want to answer that "what do you mean I have to do my own marketing?" question from social media.

In today's episode, I'm sick.