The Spiral of Ick and Quiet Winners: You Don’t Have to Flaunt Yourself to Succeed
carriejonesbooks Recently, I read an interview with an author who talked about how much children loved her book and how they tell her this. It annoyed me. It may have been…
carriejones
Shaun went off the rails, but this was supposed to be about how do you sustain a career as an author
This is obviously not the full transcript. You have to listen to hear the full weirdness, but . . . here’s the core. How Do You Sustain a Career as…
The Info Dump from Hell and How to Avoid Them and Also UFOs
Talking about show vs tell at the scene level is a little bit harder than talking about it at the paragraph and scene levels. But it’s also a tiny bit…
Control Your Tells, Don’t Give In To the Passive
Babe, I know you don’t want to talk about showing vs telling any longer, our massive series, but it’s really really important. It’s sunk many a cool book idea, stopped…