This week our encouragement for writers comes in the form of a goal setting session with the podcast hosts. Tune in to the podcast each week for more encouragement for writers and self-publishing tips!
Episode 21: Author Beware
This week our encouragement for writers comes in the form of a reminder about internet safety. Tune in each week for more encouragement, support, and great self-publishing tips!
Hi, Christian indies!
When I was a child, the Publisher’s Clearing House (PCH) entry form was still sent by U.S. Mail. It was a glorious, fat envelope, with promises of potential for great fortune stamped across the front. Inside was an enormous sheet of perforated, full color lick-and-stick stamps, each representing a magazine subscription one could purchase by affixing the stamp to the appropriate place on the order form, which doubled as an entry form for the Sweepstakes. My Mother would never even open this alluring piece of mail-into the trash can it would go. Somehow, one day, I discovered this fascinating packet. Maybe I saw the mail before my Mom got to it. More likely, I saw the captivating red letters beckoning me to “enter to win” peeking out from the can when I was asked to take out the trash. Whatever the case, I was immediately intrigued and excited about this correspondence.
You see, I had watched the PCH people in commercials on tv, showing up at someone’s house with a gigantic cardboard check made out for millions of dollars. I could not believe my Mother would just throw away this chance at winning big bucks!
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Hop on the roller coaster that is this episode, the final wrap up for our 2018 NaNoWriMo.
Episode 17: NaNoWriMo Week 3
It’s week three! Thanksgiving Day! Whee!
Jamie & Jen, holed away in their den
chatting with glee, they seem to agree
so many things to say, before eating turkay.
Episode 16: NaNoWriMo Week 2
It’s week two
How did you do?
We four wrote more
Than we ever did before!
Episode 15: NaNoWriMo Week 1
Check in with the hosts to see how they are doing this National Novel Writing Month! Includes readings of RAW material from their current projects.
Episode 14: Live NaNoWriMo Kick Off Party
Our very first ever online party to begin National Novel Writing Month in style! Do you like free things? We have them. Good friends? We’ve got that too. Plus, at the conclusion of the podcast, we will kickoff November with the month’s first writing sprint!
Episode 13: Story Structure
Hello Christian Indie Writers,
Welcome to another episode of our Podcast in which we discuss Story Structure. Whether you are writing a romance novel, a thriller, or a noir detective story your story will have a structure. The genre you choose may determine the one you use, or you may choose to stick with a basic 3 act or 4 act structure.
But how do you choose? That is just one of the questions we try to answer on todays podcast. For example, we talk about the dystopian novel that I am writing and how I chose to use a heroes journey type story structure. We will also discuss several other kinds of structures; what they look like and how they work.
I hope that you will find value in todays discussion. Please leave us a comment to let us know how you’re liking the podcast so far and what type of things you’d like us to discuss in the future. Speaking of the future, we are having a NaNoWriMo kick-off party on October 31st. It will be a live-stream broadcast starting at 11 pm Eastern time concluding with a word sprint at midnight. You won’t want to miss it. It’s going to be a blast.
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