Episodes

  • Getting Inside Your Character's Head: Psychology in Writing with Guest Author Jennifer MD Cox

    Getting Inside Your Character's Head: Psychology in Writing with Guest Author Jennifer MD Cox
    Oct 4 2024

    In this episode M Irene interviews author Jennifer MD Cox about using psychology in writing. Jennifer goes over the basics, psychology aspects that can influence character morality, choices and other things in this episode.



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    *disclaimer---audio file issues have interfered with the quality of audio.

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    47 mins
  • Pathfinders Writing Collective Q&A: Finding Your Space

    Pathfinders Writing Collective Q&A: Finding Your Space
    Sep 27 2024

    In this episode M Irene and Amy Bell interview Jen Woodrum and Rain Sullivan about Pathfinders Writing Collective, a new writing challenge and community for creatives!


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    30 mins
  • Standing on the Sidelines

    Standing on the Sidelines
    Sep 20 2024

    In this episode, Amy Bell and M Irene discuss fleshing out side characters! They discuss the importance of side characters, their relationship to the main character and common archetypes for side characters using dramatica archetype theory.


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    20 mins
  • The Real Priority: A Mental Health Discussion with Write Now

    The Real Priority: A Mental Health Discussion with Write Now
    Sep 13 2024

    Live mental health discussion turned podcast, on mental health and writing! Is YOUR mental health holding you back from writing? Do you deal with a fear of failure, rejection, or vulnerability? Join How to Survive Until You're Published and other Authors in the writing community as they discuss obstacles, pitfalls, and traps that prevent them from writing and their strategies to overcome them. Featuring the following Guest Authors: @kauffmanjlk

    https://www.youtube.com/@kauffmanwritenow @johnalanturner: https://www.johnalanturner.com/home26... @danabell: https://dragonlots8.wixsite.com/websi...
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • Antiheroes and Redemption Arcs with Amey Zeigler

    Antiheroes and Redemption Arcs with Amey Zeigler
    Sep 6 2024
    In this episode, M Irene and Amy Bell discuss antiheroes and redemption arcs with Amey Zeigler. Amey tells us her formula for creating antiheroes, and key characteristics she thinks every antihero should have. She also identifies the differences between a vigilante character and antihero. Amey then goes through how to write a redemptive arc. *Music for this episode is by REMBALL music
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    38 mins
  • Seeds to Trees: Brainstorming with Ashley Funk

    Seeds to Trees: Brainstorming with Ashley Funk
    Aug 23 2024

    In this episode M Irene and Amy Bell interview guest author Ashley Funk about how she comes up with ideas for her stories, and how she takes the seeds of an idea into a full fleshed story.


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    35 mins
  • When to Stop and When to Not

    When to Stop and When to Not
    Aug 9 2024

    In this episode Amy Bell and M Irene discuss pacing! They go over common problems with pacing, how to recognize pacing problems and how to overcome them.



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    21 mins
  • Finding Your Voice (and Maybe Your Genre Too)

    Finding Your Voice (and Maybe Your Genre Too)
    Jul 26 2024

    In this episode Amy Bell and M Irene discuss which genres they write, how they discovered their genres, how they develop their voices and how to pick which POV to use for your novel.

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    14 mins