Is That Even A Joke? It’s All About the Subtext
carriejonesbooks So, um, a lot of the time during the podcast Shaun will say something that makes Carrie have these huge pauses because she’s reading the subtext underneath what he’s saying.…
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Writers, Go With Your Gut and Bring Out the Big Emotion
A lot of the times that Carrie works with writers, she notices that they are pulling back from the emotion that is happening in the story. Instead of allowing the…
Worst Case Scenarios are Bad For Your Heart and Good For Your Writing
Shaun used to call me, “WC,” because he is evil. No. Really. He called me that because I’m always thinking up the worst case scenario for every situation and planning…
The Poet Who Saw Me – Wednesday Writing Wisdom
When I was a kid at Bates College, I spent a lot of my time feeling like less. My family had been kind of poor after my step-father died. My…
Writers, Be Simple
We’ve all heard the statistics: Writers take ten years to get their first novel published, on average The average children’s book writer makes 5k a year, if she’s lucky. If…