بهترین پادکست های Writing Motivation (2024)

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Fighting, Commerce, and Ten-Cent Beer: Welcome to America and How to Frame Stories 20:21

10d ago20:21

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On last week’s podcast and the one a few before that, and in a post, Shaun and I talked a bit about plot structures and narrative structures and how here in the U.S. we think of these usually (not always!) as pretty linear, and pretty much in a three-act framework (think beginning, middle, end) with rising stakes and drama as you go along. This is …

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Pot Plants Invade Wisconsin and Alternate That Plot Structure 24:37

17d ago24:37

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Last week, maybe a week ago, maybe 82 years ago, who knows, we talked about alternative plot structures. Much of American film and novels is built on what's considered to be the classic three-act structure, which basically goes beginning-middle-end, and there's this rising line of the plot. It ends up looking like a bit of a triangle. As readers, w…

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No cow cuddles, no brain worms: Do you want to be happy? 24:23

1M ago24:23

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Do you want to be happy? It’s a question philosopher Sebastian Purcell asks his students every year. Do you want to be happy? For Purcell being happy has a lot in common with living a good life, “The Stoic answer to this question, that the good life consists in flourishing (eudaimonia), has seen a resurgent interest that is indicative of a cultural…

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Celestial Bodies, Sexy Knees and Story Structure via Robert McKee 23:17

1M ago23:17

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You can learn a lot about culture by how it looks at what makes a good story and a good story structure. In Western culture right now, we tend to think of stories as three acts (a beginning, middle, and end with the bulk being in the middle), and with a protagonist or hero or main character (whatever you want to call it) who drives the story forwar…

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Strangeness Free-for-all 55:37

1M ago55:37

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It ended up being a bit of a free-for-all as we talked about the strange things people do sometimes. SHOUT OUT TO STUBHY! The snippet of our intro and outro music is only a snippet of this guy’s awesome talent. Many thanks to Kaustubh Pandav. You can check out a bit of his work at the links below. www.luckyboysconfusion.Net or www.Facebook.com/mrms…

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How Not to be a Butt-Hole in Real Life and on the Page 24:10

2M ago24:10

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So building a sympathetic character on the page is a lot like being a sympathetic character in real life. This sympathetic character is basically the opposite of a butt-hole. There’s this great post on the SocialSelf blog that talks about what makes people likable and what keeps people from being likeable. And writers can learn from this, really. T…

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Someone was sleeping outside her tent right next to her and how to make good writing habits 23:23

2M ago23:23

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A lot of writers that I work with have a problem. The problem is that they want to be a writer, but before they come to me? They don’t write. Here’s the thing. For a lot of us, we have to make time to be a writer. That’s just how our brains and process work. There are some writers who manage to get 10 days of alone time and writer time and they pow…

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Strange Things In the Woods 1:01:49

2M ago1:01:49

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We found a topic! It ended up mostly being about poop and creepiness and three-foot tall humanoids. Links we mention: https://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-forest-ranger-stories/amandasedlakhevenerتوسط Carrie Jones and Shaun Farrar

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Overcoming Negativity Bias & Toilet Rats 19:01

2M ago19:01

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Being an author or an artist or almost anyone is about navigating. You have to walk a fine line with criticism and praise, discern what's real and what's not, what matters or not, what is noise and what is important. And sometimes? Well, sometimes we only hear and dwell on the one negative thing that someone has said to us or written about us even …

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Why it is okay to read books you’ve already read and sometimes there’s an alligator in your kitchen 28:25

2M ago28:25

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Here's our main premise this week: it's okay to read books you've already read. Not only is it okay. It's helpful. This is true for both writers and normal humans. Rereading books gives you: New ideas Reminds you of ideas you'd forgotten about Let's you notice new things because you aren't the same you who read that book the last time. DONALD LATUM…

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The Spiral of Ick and Quiet Winners: You Don’t Have to Flaunt Yourself to Succeed 26:37

2M ago26:37

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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 good marketing, but it sure didn't feel like good human-ing, you know? When you're interviewed by a reporter or when you do a school visit, as a children's book author, you have the ability to to…

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Shaun went off the rails, but this was supposed to be about how do you sustain a career as an author 30:55

3M ago30:55

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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 an Author? It's a really good question, right? One, all of us authors are trying to figure out. Rise With Drew writes, "Creative careers are slippery. One-hit wonders abound, but fewer are enduring supe…

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The Info Dump from Hell and How to Avoid Them and Also UFOs 19:43

3M ago19:43

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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 easier. When you’re looking for telling at this level of the story, what you’re looking for is a couple of things: A butt ton of backstory. A butt ton of info dumps A lot of flashback. You can have b…

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Control Your Tells, Don’t Give In To the Passive 20:53

3M ago20:53

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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 others in its tracks. It is a chaos agent in the life of many a good writer. And there are so many damn facets to it. I could fill a year of podcasts talking about it. Don’t worry, I…

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Author to Author: Chris Lynch Interview 30:24

3M ago30:24

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Award-winning author of YA novels? Check. Printz honor author, ALA Best Book winner, National Book Award finalist? Check. Has a middle grade coming out March 11 that's about to rock the world? Definitely. Was so cool that Carrie was afraid to talk to him back in 2005 or 2006 or something? You know it. Chris Lynch, award winning human and ridiculous…

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LET’S SHOW YOU HOW SHOW VS TELL WORKS! Florida Man Poops on a Possum. We won’t show you that 18:01

4M ago18:01

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Hey! Welcome to our series of podcasts and posts all about showing vs. telling, which we are on fire about right now, right Shaun? Growls. You can check out the rest of the series on Carrie’s Substack Write Better Now or just the podcast episodes on her blog, https://carriejonesbooks.blog/ So, a lot of my writers have a brain like mine, which is sa…

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RELATED TO MONSTERS AND WRITERS, GET INTO THE READER’S BRAIN IF YOU WANT TO SHOW AND NOT TELL 18:01

4M ago18:01

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We’re continuing with our monster “Show Don’t Tell” series of podcasts and posts. So, hey! Welcome to our series of podcasts and posts all about showing vs. telling, which we are on fire about right now, right Shaun? Growls. You can check out the rest of the series on Carrie’s Substack Write Better Now or just the podcast episodes on her website. A…

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THE PROBLEM WITH ADVERBS & BEARS IN THE DOGGY DOOR: Let’s Show, Not Tell. 15:37

4M ago15:37

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We’re continuing with our monster “Show Don’t Tell” series of podcasts and posts. Adverbs are a big place where you tell and not show. So, if I wrote, “You are the sexiest manatee in the world,” Ham-Ham said hopelessly. Would you think that works? Would you feel how Ham-Ham said it hopelessly? Janice Hardy is brilliant and she has a really simple w…

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Show Us Your Wounds Writers and Stealing Seven King Cakes 18:55

5M ago18:55

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There’s this really great book for writers by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi called The Emotional Wound Thesaurus. It came out way back in 2017. As they write in their prologue, “Life is painful, and not all the lessons we learn are positive ones. As with you and me, the characters in our stories have suffered emotional trauma that cannot easily…

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Promises, Promises, Writers Promise Readers a Lot Plus a Screech Owl Chilling With Board Games 14:01

5M ago14:01

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Writers Are Promise Makers Writers are promise makers. We tell our readers that we’re going to give them something just because of the cultural expectations that happen when someone opens our books. What do we promise them? We promise a character The book is about someone. We reveal different aspects about that character as we show them act or reac…

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TROPE ME OUT, BABY: THE JUMP SCARE AND JANUARY IS A BLISSED OUT MONTH 16:53

5M ago16:53

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There’s a lot of ways that trope is defined, but for us here on DOGS ARE SMARTER THAN PEOPLE, we’re going with the Grammarist’s definition, which is: “A trope is simply a common or recurring theme or method used in storytelling across all forms of media. Tropes serve as a way for creators to convey certain ideas and messages to their audience in a …

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Hate Hard, the Beer Poems, and Building the Life You Want 21:37

6M ago21:37

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I’ve been going through holes of Reels and short-form videos at night lately, watching people remodel their house or home, decorate for holidays, and then, um, being an Amazon affiliate. At the same time, a lot of the writers I work with are having BIG DOUBT MOMENTS as they query and read Twitter/X and see authors behaving badly or agents behaving …

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Dig Deep and Baby Owl in the Christmas Tree 16:15

6M ago16:15

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How to Dig Deeper in Your Scenes A lot of time, a writer will get feedback and it’ll say something vague-ish like, “Dig deeper.” And then the author cries or gets angry or feels an emotion that no author wants to feel. The thing is that this advice is sort of vague, but what it usually means is: 1. You have no setting in your scene or chapter or st…

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WHY YOU WANT TO NOT USE ING VERBS AND IF I WERE A FISH IS THE BEST SONG EVER 18:19

6M ago18:19

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When I was a baby newspaper reporter, one of my editors, Grady Holloway, used to call me over to his desk. A lot. I loved Grady. He had this great, grizzly beard before it was cool, wore a dirty hat, had been married to an ambassador’s daughter, rode horses, drove cab in Colorado when all the beat poets and journalists were out there, and liked noi…

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Random Life Advice: Let’s Look At Each Other 16:23

7M ago16:23

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When I go to classrooms on book tour or for school visits, teachers (or kids prompted by teachers) always ask me what the most important skill is for being a writer. And I tell them a couple things. No, it’s not about what a comma splice is or the coolness of objective correlatives. It’s really a two part answer: Notice what people are doing, their…

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A Simple Trick to Write Better: Get Rid of the Nods 17:14

7M ago17:14

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When I help writers with their stories, a lot of the times one of the things I tell them is that they need to dig more deeply. They need to dig more deeply into the emotion and feel it with the characters. They need to dig more deeply into the scene and see the characters there, interacting with their surroundings and each other. And a lot of us wr…

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Dive Into The Conflict and Make Your Book Blurb Sing 22:52

7M ago22:52

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Two weeks ago, we started talking about how to write a book blurb for your story and began with the first step, which is a hook. You can check that out here. And the second step is here. So, if the first step is creating that hook, the second step, according to Shayla Raquel is dangling the characters. Then our next step is what Shaun has no proble…

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Baby bears are the new bison and how to write a book blurb 18:01

8M ago18:01

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Last week, we started talking about how to write a book blurb for your story and began with the first step, which is a hook. You can check that out here. So, if the first step is creating that hook, the second step, according to Shayla Raquel is dangling the characters. What does that mean? It means that the thing that propels your story needs to b…

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How to Make Your Book Blurb and Trippy Art About Dragon Intimacy How to Make a Shart Tantalizing? 24:44

8M ago24:44

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I’ve decided it’s time for a new series of podcast now that we whacked character lies down to a mush of sobs. There are all different ways to write these blurbs and make them tantalizing to readers, but there are set steps. We’re going to focus on the first one here. First let’s explain what a book blurb is, right? It’s just the description of your…

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Smuggling Giraffe Poop and Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies: Character Misbelief is Hot When You Write Novels 22:31

8M ago22:31

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So far we’ve talked (and written) twice about character misbeliefs. Then we took a baby break because we’re like that, but we’re back on it now, my friends. Those earlier posts are linked below. First off to recap, the big lie or character misbelief in your story is what motivates them or causes them to act in a certain way. If your character grows…

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Happily Ever After or Happy For Now 25:54

8M ago25:54

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It’s a romance brawl. Not really. But it’s a bit of one. And it comes down to this: Does a romance have to have Happily Ever After or Happy For Now to be a romance? Does there need to be a positive, happy ending in order for a book to be a romance? Let’s talk about it. Unspoken agreement with the reader WRITING TIP OF THE POD If your story isn’t ha…

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Neither of Us are Lookers, Seventh Grade Insults and Character Misbeliefs 26:08

9M ago26:08

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On our last podcast and post, we talked about the character misbelief, which is basically what the character in your story believes that isn’t real or true.The big component of this is that your character believes this big lie about life or about themselves because of something that hurt them in the past. The thing that hurt them in the past that c…

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YOUR BIG LIE OR CHARACTER’S MISBELIEF 20:50

9M ago20:50

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We’re doing a hybrid writing tip and podcast this week. All the important stuff is written down here. All the fun stuff and Shaun aka The Talent is in the podcast where we talk about this important writing stuff and other things. So, let’s get started. The big lie or the character’s misbelief in your story is a major key to your character’s story a…

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Strange Storm Things 1:01:40

9M ago1:01:40

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It's a weird, wild, not PC live ride into strange storm things as we wait for Hurricane Lee. I tried to keep this podcast on track. I failed. Links We Mention https://www.factretriever.com/hurricane-facts https://bestlifeonline.com/storm-facts/ http://www.theworldgeography.com/2011/04/top-8-weirdest-natural-disasters.html https://news.yahoo.com/7-w…

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Repurpose Spider Hairs, Licking Rocks, and Counting Dead People’s Nose Hairs: Logic Matters and so do the Ig Nobles 21:22

9M ago21:22

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In our random thought we talk all about the Ig Nobles. We don't transcribe that, so you'll have to listen. Sorry! But now, let’s talk about logic. When you are writing a novel and something doesn’t make sense—let’s say someone has brown eyes on page 2 and blue eyes on page 1—your editor if you have one is going to call you on that. If they don’t ca…

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Is Your Life a Stand Alone or A Series? 16:00

10M ago16:00

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Chuck Wendig has a piece on his blog, Terrible Minds, called "Series vs Standalone: Cage Match," which shows that Wendig is great at blog headlines and marketing. But his riff on a BlueSky conversation between a lot of writer elite. And it’s why he’s writing standalones mostly from now on instead of a series. Quickly, his reasons are: "Writing a se…

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Young Woman at the Cocktail Party 1:21

10M ago1:21

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A poem for Monday!توسط Carrie Jones and Shaun Farrar

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A Deep Dive Into The Strange 1:01:13

10M ago1:01:13

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This week we tried to take a deep dive into the strange, but basically just told four stories. God only knows what went wrong, honestly. LINKS WE MENTION: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8htqnq/what_strange_thing_have_you_witnessedexperienced/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/توسط Carrie Jones and Shaun Farrar

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Brave Fart and Florida Man, Let’s Talk About How Anger is Not The Enemy for Writers and Other Humans 22:33

10M ago22:33

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So, a lot of self-help out there on TikTok and blogs is all about being . . . Well, happier, more efficient, better humans. We explore this all the time ourselves as we try to lead better lives, but one of the big things about this is that it sort of makes it seem like we live in a bubble where only we exist, that if we just work harder, better, mo…

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How to Stay Motivated Even If You’re a Writer 19:33

11M ago19:33

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How to Stay Motivated Even If You’re a Writer A lot of writers hate writing. They sit and stare at the blank page or screen. They end up posting about how hard writing is, how torturous. Their post will get them a million likes. But it wasn’t always like that for that. Most of us write because at one point we really loved writing. Drawing? The same…

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Feel the Awe and Get Through the Tough Times 25:12

11M ago25:12

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Awe can get us through time times, scientists are saying. We'll check this theory out, define awe a bit, and obviously--get goofy. DOG THOUGHT FOR LIFE Sparty says: Slow down. You move too fast. Smell every tree and fire hydrant. LINKS WE MENTION https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_awe_can_help_us_through_tough_times https://www.natur…

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Let’s Talk About Creepy Things 34:12

11M ago34:12

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Ghosts. Sasquatch. Cryptids. There are entire Facebook posts about them where people share their experiences, one after another after another. We're going to break format today, share a couple, and trying to figure out why people are so into Bigfoot and why Bigfoot is just not that into you. :) Just kidding! But seriously, why isn't he into me? I'm…

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Would You Quit If Your Employer Made You Exercise? Plus, a Mile-Long Cloud of Flying Ants 25:57

11M ago25:57

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There’s a company in Sweden who is now run by a super fitness guy. He’s all in on the exercise. And when he took the company over, some people in the company quit. They were not all in, right? It was just an hour at 9 a.m. on Friday, but they were like hell to the now. And it’s funny because in school and for a lot of us in college, exercise or spo…

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Living in the Present Tense 23:06

12M ago23:06

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This episode we're riffing on living in the present tense and also a bit about using it in your writing. As Peter Selgin says "Apart from its ubiquity, there are good reasons to be wary of the present tense. Unlike the past tense, which allows narrators unrestricted movement between the past and the present, the present tense locks us into each mom…

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Buying Beyoncé’s Bidet and Is It Excitement or Is It Dread? 20:28

12M ago20:28

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Those two topics aren't necessarily connected. As a human being, I tend to get sort of an anticipatory anxiety before I do things—a lot. I think of it as stage fright. And it turns out that this anticipatory sort of anxiety can be a symptom of generalized anxiety disorder or a panic disorder. Recently, though, I started to think of it as maybe an a…

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Shaun Ran For Office And Going After Your Dreams 24:21

1y ago24:21

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This week's podcast is about Shaun running for office and going after you dreams. These aren't actually related. :) DOG TIP FOR LIFE Sparty would like you all to know that you can readjust your dream to be the only dog in the house and yes, it is horrifying, but dream tweaking has to happen because of outside circumstances sometimes. LINKS WE MENTI…

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Don’t Fart on Your Readers Or Other People, Writers 24:16

1y ago24:16

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So, this podcast we're talking about expectations readers have and how we don't want to blow those expectations off. It's all about reader expectation theory, but also delivering what you're reader wants. Most of the time they aren't into farts. DOG TIP FOR LIFE Sometimes humans fail to meet your expectations, but just go with it. Eventually, you w…

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Trending and a pbj with Cheetos is the world’s best sandwich 25:06

1y ago25:06

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This week we talk all about trending. Is it good? Bad? Both? And also about a certain sandwich DOG TIP FOR LIFE: Choose your trends wisely SHOUT OUT! The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what…

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No Death Bed Regrets, OK? Channel Your Inner Bezos 26:27

1y ago26:27

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It’s not about being risk averse, it’s about being regret averse. There’s a pretty well known story about Jeff Bezos, the guy who started Amazon. The story goes like this: Jeff Bezos quit his nice hedge-fund job to start Amazon. He did this big leap of faith because he imagined he was 80 and he wanted to be an 80 year old who had as few regrets as …

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All Body and No Beak: Should You Leave Social Media? 21:43

1y ago21:43

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This week we talk about Shaun's potential Only Fans and whether or not we should be on social media and if not all, which ones should we be on. DOG TIP FOR LIFE Be consistent. Do what makes you happy. LINKS WE REFERENCE Medium article SHOUT OUT! The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creat…

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