WritingThe September 10, 2019 return hour: inciting incidents and three-arc structure, Luke Skywalker versus Rey and Captain Marvel, Dune as the near-perfect arc, conflict down to a weather exchange, the live 14-hour-thriller reading with show-versus-tell annotated, romance and mystery formulas,…
WritingThe September 5, 2019 conversation with author coach Azul Terronez: the walls of writing, publishing, and marketing, the professional-wrestler predecessor and the Afghani client who thought Americans eat their dogs, first-book-is-crap coaching, the audience as sole judge of good, and…
WritingThe May 21, 2019 farewell hour: category research, pantsers versus plotters, 5,000-word days in walk-broken sprints, professional editors and specific beta readers, AutoCrit far superior to Grammarly for fiction, the category-one launch push, the yes-yes hypnosis of webinar traps, consignment…
WritingThe March 19, 2019 session on developing book ideas: nonfiction from passion without term-paper style, fiction seeds gathered by the hundreds at faires, reenactments, museums, and old folks' homes, the rings-on-a-tree expansion method, research before writing, why only-3-left never applies…
WritingThe January 15, 2019 hour on ideas and market reality: thirty seeds generated fast, KDP Rocket research, the unbeatable coloring book wall, two winnable categories pulling up a tough one, short books as market tests, the space opera prequel strategy,…
WritingThe December 18, 2018 hour on confidence: publish the imperfect first book, the freelancer as salesperson, approaching agents through conversation, Richard Branson's accept-and-figure-it-out, fear as fiction, the pretend-no-savings mind game, Bonnie's 80,000 words at 78, the pop-and-lock dancer nobody clapped…
WritingPart two with Sage the Poet, broadcast as a nor'easter closed in: why writing and editing at the same time causes writer's block, the scheduled professional day, 12,000-word workdays via dictation, light outlining with story and character arcs, daily promotion,…
WritingTony Kay hosted Richard Lowe for a full hour on Authors First: the accidental start in computing, the Trader Joe's years, the leap into writing, disaster preparedness from lived experience, and the photography born from love and grief.
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