بهترین پادکست های Art Of Writing (2024)

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#52 - Lewis Capaldi - The Needless Struggle of a Successful Music Artist 19:12

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So, I recently dived into Netflix's documentary about Lewis Capaldi, titled "Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now," and let me tell you, it was a rollercoaster of emotions - inspiring and tear-jerking in equal measure. >>> Download a Songwriter's Roadmap to Narrative Songwriting <<< >>> lyricmastery.com/21steps And in this episode, we talk about Lewi…

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#51 - How to Write a Viral Song 40:47

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How many of you have a message for the world, but you need help finding your voice or your audience? Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. I want you to imagine millions of people listening to your song. I want you to imagine thousands of people knocking your door down wanting to know when you come to their city to play them the song live because th…

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#50 - “The Comeback” by Drew Davies - A great example of a redemption story in a song 56:11

1+ y ago56:11

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Lets move away from all those love songs we’ve talked about in the past because I recently had the pleasure to listen to the song “The Comeback” by the London-based musician Drew Davies. As stated on metaltalk.net, this song by Davies “is a call to arms for society's malcontents and a tip of the hat to an era of alternative greats such as David Bow…

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#49 - Overcoming what's holding you back & reaching your goals. 11:35

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When you feel stuck in your songwriting, or in life in general, I’d like to share with you the approach that helped me. So if you feel stuck sometimes… maybe this helps. Support the show Would you like to join our FREE 3-hour Masterclass on ... The #1 Secret of Writing Timeless Hit Song Lyrics, and How You Can Do It, too. Go to lyricmastery.com/get…

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#48 - The Ultimate Dilemma for the Song’s Main Character – Waypoint #3: The Crisis 19:03

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In today’s episode, we’re gonna explore what it looks when we write about facing a crisis. We’ve all been in a dilemma in our life, right? It’s when no matter what we choose, there’s always something to lose, but also something to gain. But it’s normal if we fear the loss more than having the potential to gain something. Being in a dilemma, there’s…

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#47 - How to combine every part of the lyrics so that it contributes to one central meaning? 11:20

1+ y ago11:20

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Today, I wanna answer a question that I got recently asked in my Facebook Group. It’s from Hudson. And he asked: How can I combine every part of the song so that it contributes to one central meaning of the lyrics? That’s an awesome question, and let’s talk about it right now. Support the show Would you like to join our FREE 3-hour Masterclass on .…

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#46 - Writing A Turning Point Moment in Lyrics – Waypoint #2: The Turning Point Progressive Complication 15:46

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If you’re like me, you have something valuable to share. Something that matters. And that we know that can help someone who will listen to our song. And to get our message across in a way that bypasses a listener's critical mind, we have to wrap what we have to say into an experience. And we create that experience through the journey we send our so…

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#45 - How I Discovered the Power of Lyrics 18:32

1+ y ago18:32

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Today, I wanna take the chance and introduce myself to you. Especially, I wanna tell you the story about the time in my life when I was completely lost, on my own, literally at the end of the world, and how one song gave me the strength to carry on… and what all of that taught me about what makes lyrics powerful. So it’s all about my journey, so to…

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#44 - Throwing the Song's Character's Life Out Of Balance – Waypoint #1: The Inciting Incident 14:21

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You know, I always consider what happens in a powerful lyric like a journey. It’s basically about watching a character move from one point in their life to another. They are in a certain external or internal situation, and they wanna get from where they are to a better place. So there’s always this little journey that the song’s main character goes…

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#43 - What You Have to Say Matters… and How To Make it Matter to Others 17:25

1+ y ago17:25

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In today’s episode, I want to talk with you about you, your purpose, and why we write lyrics. For me, when it comes to writing – no matter if it’s novels or lyrics – I use my words as the means to communicate with my audience and deliver a meaningful message that has the power to make an impact on them. And I guess, since you are here, you have the…

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#42 - “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not” by Thompson Square – How to Create a Smooth and Subtle Narrative Flow 48:24

1+ y ago48:24

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In today’s episode, we’ll go through the lyrics of “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not” by Thompson Square. And I tell you, as I first listened to the song. I thought: Quite nice. But I didn’t give the lyrics much thought. But now, after I have studied the lyrics and their storytelling power, I must say, I’m super surprised by how well-crafted those lyri…

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#41 - Attention Grabbing Opening Lines – Part 3: The Intriguing Question 13:54

1+ y ago13:54

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#043 - Welcome to part 3 of our mini-series of Attention-Grabbing Opening Lines. In episode 41 of the Stories in Songs Podcast, I’m gonna throw a lot of questions at you. Why? Listen to the show and find out. ;-) Episode Overview [00:00:53] The Intriguing Question [00:03:37] Different Types of Questions to ask [00:07:13] Song Examples that start wi…

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#40 - Steps Two and Three to Creating A One-Sentence Lyric Outline To Guide Your Writing Process 34:26

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#040 - Creating A One-Sentence Lyric Outline To Guide Your Writing Process. In today’s episode, we continue with steps Two and Three to Creating A One-Sentence Lyric Outline To Guide Your Writing Process. If you haven’t listened to episode 38 yet where we talked about the character’s literal action, please go back to that episode and listen to it. …

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#39 - Attention Grabbing Opening Lines – Part 2: The Shocking Statement 13:04

2y ago13:04

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#39 - Today, we continue with another technique of how you can create an attention-grabbing opening line for your lyrics beginning. And specifically, we talk about the Shocking Statement and different ways how you can pull it off to stun your audience and make them wanna hear more! Episode Overview: [00:01:08] The Shocking Statement [00:03:35] Diff…

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#38 - The First Step to Creating A One-Sentence Lyric Outline To Guide Your Writing Process 26:33

2y ago26:33

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#038 - Let's address the question of why we should look at the craft of storytelling when we write our lyrics – apart from the impact the power of storytelling has on our audience. Let's focus on our writing process. Because when we write our lyrics, it’s good to know where we are going. Otherwise, we’re just writing words that are all over the pla…

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#37 - Attention Grabbing Opening Lines - Part 1: The Powerful Problem 26:10

2y ago26:10

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#037 - How can we write an attention-grabbing opening line so that we can hook our listener with our first line? In today’s age, thousands of distractions compete for our audience’s attention. And if our song doesn’t hook our listeners straight away, they might not listen to it at all. But we want to get heard, right? Songs are a powerful way to ma…

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#36 - Knowing Which Lyric Lines & Ideas To Keep Or Throw Out – How To Answer The Question Of Relevancy 31:18

2y ago31:18

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#036 - How To Answer The Question Of Relevancy when it comes to Writing Lyrics. Have you ever listened to a song only to end up confused because something in the lyrics seemed off? Did you struggle because something was missing or didn’t understand why something was included because it didn’t seem relevant? In today’s episode, I want to talk with y…

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#35 - Can A Song Save A Life? 17:50

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#035 - “Can A Song Save A Life.” Lyrics ain’t an afterthought to making a song. They are equally as important as the melody and the song’s production. I mean, writing Songs as well as Listening to Songs can be the greatest aid in a desperate situation. It can keep us from falling down a cliff and empower us again. Like Galadriel said to Frodo: “May…

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#34 - How To Crush It As A Support Act - The Do’s and Dont’s! 30:05

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#034 - How to Crush it as a Support Act to Get People Interested in Your Stuff. After all, it’s all a question: Will they sing your lyrics back to you, or will they not? For me as a listener, yes, I’ll definitely shout back: Viva La Victoria! Now what that means and how you can get people excited as a support act – even if they didn’t come because …

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#33 - Dynamic Characters in Narrative Songwriting 29:56

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#033 - What does “character development” or “developing characters” mean? And do we, as songwriters, really have to think about how we create our song’s character? And if so, how can we show the audience a character in the lyrics that they can invest themselves in? That is so believable that they themselves have the power to carry the message of th…

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#32 - “You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This” by Toby Keith – Making Your Song’s Character Fall in Love 41:29

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#032 - Making Your Song’s Character Fall in Love and Influence your Audience's Engagement. In today’s episode, we’ll go through the lyrics of the song “You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This” by Toby Keith. The lyrics are so amazing to see how much the power of storytelling influences your audience’s engagement. The song is written so great, and the lyric…

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#31 - Creating Conflict by Using a Character's Wants and Needs (+ WORKSHEET) 31:47

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#031 - The Wants and Needs of a Song’s Character and How They Can Engage Your Listeners through Creating Conflict. Did you know that listeners are drawn to specific topics of lyrics because they strive to get similar things in their lives as the character in the song? When you think about your lyrics this way, it’s much easier to see the kind of ta…

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#30 - 3 Ways to Develop your Song's Character Using Internal Content Genres 26:22

2y ago26:22

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#30 - Write a song that shows a meaningful transformation of your song’s main character. Here's how you can do that. Do you want to tell your audience about someone who had to change a part of who they are to get what they actually needed? Does it interest you not only to write lyrics about external challenges but also to discover how those externa…

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#29 - Every Character WANTS something. But how to figure out WHAT that is? 20:44

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#029 - Let's create a character for your song who does what's necessary to get what they want. And besides, we also figure out WHAT a character might want. In a story, the main character actively pursues a goal, right? I don’t think you’ve ever gone to the movies to watch someone sitting on the couch all day and doing nothing. We watch a story to f…

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#28 - “Shut Up and Kiss Me” by Mary Chapin Carpenter – Avoiding Contradictions in Lyrics 49:52

2y ago49:52

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#028 - Today we’ll do our third lyric study about the love story moment of the first kiss. More specifically, we’ll talk a little more about the tension, and the anticipation BEFORE the first kiss happens. After all, that’s an incredible feeling to be moments away from that first kiss while the butterflies are rushing in roller coasters through you…

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#27 - Develop your Lyric's Verses by Using Progressive Complications (+ WORKSHEET) 22:03

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#027 - Do you want to make it progressively worse for your song's character? Then find out how you can use progressive complications to develop your lyric verses. Do you struggle with writing the second verse? Do you have problems developing your song’s idea and creating an outline? You might have already looked at some ways how to come up with ide…

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#26 - Development Engine ADVANCED: 5 Commandments of Storytelling 25:18

2y ago25:18

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#026 - Use Pat Pattison's Development Engine and the 5 Commandments of Storytelling and develop your lyric idea. Today we talk about how you can actually develop your lyric idea into an outline. That means no more struggles with what to put in the first verse or the dreaded second verse! You might already be familiar with Pat Pattison’s approach. H…

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#25 - A Songwriter’s Six Best Friends ADVANCED: The Story Grid Diorama Model (+WORKSHEET) 17:58

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#025 - Outline your lyric's idea by using six crucial questions and combine them with the Story Grid Diorama Model. Today we talk about a songwriter’s six best friends. You might have already heard about the term: Songwriter’s Six Best Friends in the book “Writing Better Lyrics” by Pat Pattison or in one of his courses. But today, we want to make h…

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#24 - “Rumor” by Lee Brice – Using Multiple Love Story Conventions 53:22

2y ago53:22

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#024 - Do you want to write a great love song about the first kiss? Get inspired by using love story conventions to get your listeners into the mood. Today we’ll do our second lyric study about the love story moment of the first kiss. And we’ll use the song “Rumor” by Lee Brice as today’s example to find out how you can pull it off to write about t…

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#23 - Finding Topics to Write about by Looking at Universal Human Values 23:52

2y ago23:52

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#023 - Not in the mood to write another song about love? Get inspired by other great topics to write about. Let me ask you this: Have you ever wondered if there’s anything other than writing a love song? It seems every second song seems to be about love. So there’s a huge demand for love stories. But still, can’t we write about something else for o…

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#22 - How to Show a Change between your Song's Beginning and Ending 19:54

2y ago19:54

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#022 - The Most Important Element of a Story that Works – How to Show a Change between Beginning and Ending. Honestly, you’re about to learn about one of the most important aspects that decide if you have a story or if it’s just a sequence of events where nothing happens at all. You might already know what I mean: Stories are about change. In each …

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#21 - Crucial Components of Narrative Songwriting 20:48

2y ago20:48

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#021 - No more struggles when you flesh out your lyric's idea. Today we start with our first bite-sized episode to talk about one specific aspect of using the power of storytelling in writing lyrics. Let me ask you this: When it comes to finding ideas to write about, do you know how to turn that idea into lyrics? Do you know what components you act…

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#20 - “Kiss Me Slowly” by Parachute – Why Change is Better than Repetition 1:16:10

2+ y ago1:16:10

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#020 - Find out why change is better than repetition in writing the lyric's plot. Today we’ll talk about Parachute’s song “Kiss Me Slowly.” This is the first song we analyze in the category of the love story moment of the First Kiss. And you’re in for a surprise. The more we take that song apart, the more we discover why the lyrics actually confuse…

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Men Writing Women - Part 4 - "Strong Female Lead" 1:04:00

2+ y ago1:04:00

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Welcome to the fourth and final part of this series. In this episode we take a look into understanding where our idea and concept of strong women/female characters comes from, and how it relates to men/male characters. There are many topics I wanted to touch on in this episode, but I figured saving some for later episodes made more sense. I hope yo…

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Men Writing Women - Part 3 - Eve 26:03

2+ y ago26:03

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Picking up from the last two episodes, we discuss Eve and a few possible translations of the Book of Genesis as well as how this relates to writing as a whole. This is a quicker episode but I hope you enjoy! If you'd like to support me, you can find me on Ko-fi at: https://ko-fi.com/nathanielmellor If you have anything you'd like to hear me talk ab…

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Men Writing Women - Part 2 - Lilith 48:53

2+ y ago48:53

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In this episode we pick up from where we left off, but instead of jumping into the topic of Eve, we first discuss Lilith. I do make a mistake at the end and I say "creativity" instead of "curiosity" twice. Which is what this episode is really about. How did certain stories that punish curiosity become so powerful? Especially since writers are in th…

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Men Writing Women - Part 1 - Pandora's Box 29:06

2+ y ago29:06

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On Reddit, there is a subreddit, or sub-forum, with the name Men Writing Women. It's devoted to examples of poorly created and written women characters by [oftentimes] male writers. In this episode, part one of four, I explore a little bit of history that is attached to poorly written women characters. I hope you enjoy!…

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Fewer vs Less and other rules that might have just been made up 22:29

2+ y ago22:29

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Hello and welcome back to another episode! There are certain rules in the English that don't seem to make sense. Worse than that, they seem to be arbitrary. Why? In this episode, I talk about those rules, and why/how it is we follow them. Feel free to take this episode with a grain of salt. Maybe it's more entertainment that fact, though it is fact…

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Using a Notebook as a Creative Tool 22:50

2+ y ago22:50

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With the name "Only a Notebook" I figured it was time to talk about notebooks. I hope you enjoy! If you have anything you'd like me to talk about, you can find me on Twitter @MellorNathaniel. I also made a Ko-Fi! https://ko-fi.com/nathanielmellor Don't feel the need to donate, I figured I'd make one just in case!…

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Don't Rob Yourself of the Chance to be Creative 10:45

2+ y ago10:45

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Welcome back! Sorry about the unintended break... In this episode I discuss robbing yourself of the chance to be creative. This can look like generic statements, broad statements, or lines written to appeal to everyone rather than a specific audience. Like all my advice, none of it is a hard and fast rule, it's just my way of trying to figure out h…

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How to become a Beta Reader 58:42

2+ y ago58:42

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In my last episode I talked about finding a beta reader. In this episode I talk about becoming a beta reader since it's something that I've heard many writers want to try doing. Especially if they're paid! I try to give an overview of Upwork, Fiverr, being self-employed, and red flags to avoid. I hope you enjoy!…

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How to find a Beta Reader 20:09

3y ago20:09

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A few days ago I made a comment on Reddit about finding a beta reader and it recieved a little interest. Since I had a couple of questions asking me how to find a beta reader, I figured I'd make an episode! I hope you enjoy!

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Using Movement and Conflict instead of a Plot 9:11

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We all hear that a plot is the single most important part of a story. But I find that sometimes it can be hard to make one that helps the story rather than hinders it. Using movement and conflict in place of a plot, especially in a character-driven novel, can help your story stay engaging even without a plot. I hope you enjoy!…

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Exposure: Is it worth it? 9:15

3y ago9:15

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One of the biggest arguments of being a "creative" is that being paid in exposure isn't worth it. And it isn't. But is exposure important?

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How to use Dialogue Tags 13:22

3y ago13:22

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Dialogue tags is one of the great debates among writers. The phrase "said is dead" is often thrown around. If you're new to writing, or your curious about my take, here's how I tend to use (or not use) dialogue tags. I hope you enjoy!

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Character Description and Development 29:15

3y ago29:15

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Describing and developing a character is one of the more exciting aspects of writing. However, there are pitfalls along the way. As an editor and beta-reader there are two concepts that I have discovered that help us create characters, but ones that can also lead to prejudice if you aren't mindful: default and gestalt. I hope you enjoy!…

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Short Story Editing Tips 11:05

3y ago11:05

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Over the years I've compiled a few general writing tips that I follow as I edit. These are applicable for any kind of writing and they aren't hyper-specific. I hope you enjoy!

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Returning to writing after a break 15:33

3y ago15:33

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Over the past ten years, I've stopped and started writing again no fewer than six times. In this podcast, I offer advice on some tools to keep in mind as you're returning to writing.

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#19 - What songwriters need to know about writing lyrics about the first kiss 40:34

3y ago40:34

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Love is the most amazing feeling of all that we can experience – and if your song shares a heart-melting kissing moment, you have an unforgettable tale at your hands… But if romance isn’t your type of thing to write about, you’re probably worried about how you’d pull it off. You want your song to be emotional and meaningful, but not sappy and clich…

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#18 - 15 Secrets Every Songwriter Must Know About Writing The Lyrics For A Lovers’ First Meet Scene 56:06

3y ago56:06

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#018 - The Ultimate Guide To Writing Love Lyrics About The Lovers' First Encounter. Do you want to write an original love song about the lovers' first encounter? About that special moment when the possible future couple first lays eyes on each other? But there are so many love songs out there and you don’t know what details to focus on and apply to…

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