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400: Trusting Your Gut on a Complicated Plot
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399: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Self Publishing
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398: His Years of Writing Eloquently: The Return of A.J. Jacobs
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397: Starting Energy v. Finishing Energy: How the work gets done, start to finis...
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396: Daring to Kickstarter with Rachael Herron
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395: Episode: 395 Who Owns an Idea?
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Flashback Friday: Writing While #Broken
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394: Things Jess Learned This Month, Ep. 394
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393: I want to sell books. But I'm also writing what I want to write. Episode 39...
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392: How to Be a Good Literary Citizen: Volunteer at a Writing Conference
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Flashback Friday: How Do You Write a Non-Fiction Book in less than a Year?
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391: Why You Should Take a Plot-walk
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390: Coaching call with author, educator & speaker Katie Kinder
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389: How to Create a Substack that Delivers (for you and your readers) Episode 3...
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388: What’s on the Cutting Room Floor?
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387: The Art of Manifesting for Tired and Skeptical Authors
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386: Episode 386: Under the Weather Productivity
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385: What I Think About When I Think About Job Offers
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384: Unapologetically Re-creating our Abundant Zone of Genius
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Flashback Friday: Become a #BetterStrongerFaster Writer with Becca Syme
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Flashback Friday: Episode 293, how to build a literary life with Zibby Owens.
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Nov 24, 202344:47pending
When Inner Dialogue Isn't "Telling" and When It Is in Memoir and Fiction
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383: How to Restart Your Work after an Unplanned Pause
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382: How Sarina's Reading Journal Makes Her a Better Novelist: Episode 382
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381: How to Find the Right Speaking Agent: Ep 381
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380: National Novel Planning Month (that should be a thing)
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379: A Million Little Pieces that can Make or Break a Speaking Engagement: Epis...
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378: Six Seasons in One Episode: Cookbooks as Memoir with Gesine Bullock-Prado,...
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377: Writing for Tweendom: Jamie Sumner on writing difficult topics and the glor...
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Sep 22, 202355:11pending
376: Flinging a Fall Book out into the world
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375: Reinvention Marketing: Selling Your Book for Years After Pub Day
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Sep 8, 202335:41pending
374: From Idea to Execution: Building a Book
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373: Never Carved in Stone: Letting Ideas Evolve
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Aug 25, 202330:13pending
372: Ideas and Nonfiction: Your Book Idea Contains Multitudes
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Aug 18, 202337:21pending
371: When Good Ideas Go Bad (the most common mistakes writers make)
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Aug 11, 202340:38pending
370: Memoirs for the Marketplace: A Blueprint for Success
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Aug 4, 202348:50pending
369: You Are the Protagonist (memoirs need ideas too) with Rachael Herron
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Jul 28, 202344:39pending
368: How to Decide if Your Book Idea is Solid (or Solid Enough)
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Jul 21, 202335:27pending
367: The Airport Game (or, how to come up with 8 ideas on a 3 hour long flight)
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Jul 14, 202347:16pending
366: Welcome to the Idea Factory (Good Writing Comes Last, Part 2)
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365: How to Start a Novel (and keep going) Episode 365
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Jun 30, 202324:24pending
Summer Reading for Writers (plus a #FlashbackFriday: Episode 269)
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364: Satire: writing just below "over-the-top" with Jane Roper Episode 364
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363: How to Hate Your Work and Also Sell It-- at the same time. Episode 363
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362: Talking Fat Talk and Substack Success: Episode 362 with Virginia Sole-Smith
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Flashback Friday: Episode 288 with Joni Cole
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361: Scrivener Tips: It's only taken Jess 361 episodes to deliver on her promise
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360: Summoning My Accountability Buddies: Because Sometimes Writers Need Deadlin...
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359: Dealing with Goal Fatigue What to Do When the Goals Aren't Getting You Anyw...
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Flashback Friday: Jodi Kantor Chases the Truth
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