Words to Write by
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Actions Speak Louder Than Dialogue: Building Meaningful Scenes
Actions Speak Louder Than Dialogue: Building Meaningful Scenes
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Welcome to Words to Write by - a podcast where we discuss, chapter by chapter, those wonderful writing craft books purchased with the best of intentions but now gathering dust on the bookshelf. No judgement! We’ve got our own bookshelves. Let’s tackle these books together and become the better writers we know we can be.
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- Actions Speak Louder Than Dialogue: Building Meaningful Scenes · 1 jam 13 mntAfter countless episodes complaining that writing advice books skimp on examples, we may have finally found one with too many. Chapter 2 of Sandra Scofield's The Scene Book shows…
- Scenes That Stick · 1 jam 12 mntThere's something about a new craft book and all its promise. Renee is so happy that she's worried she won't do anything but gush over the first chapter of Sandra Scofield's The…
- Goodbye, Artist's Way. Hello, Actual Craft · 49 mnt · Musim 4 Episode 16We're saying goodbye to The Artist's Way — and honestly, good riddance. We're recapping our favorite quotes, the insights that actually landed, and the many, many reasons this…
- Week 12: We Finished the Book! · 58 mnt · Musim 4We finally finished The Artist's Way—Julia Cameron's self-help bible for unlocking your creative potential. Spoiler: our potential remains firmly locked. Was it a lack of faith?…
- Week 10: The Habits that Block Us · 1 jam 0 mntWeek 10 of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way finally tackles the elephant in every writer's room: creative block. And Cameron's fix isn't the standard "butt in chair, write daily"…
- Week 11: Flailing at the Finish Line · 1 jam 6 mntf you listen to this podcast, you probably dream of becoming a successful writer. But what happens when you actually get there—and find yourself flailing and blocked anyway?…
- Week 9: Fear is the Block · 1 jam 0 mntWhat causes writer's block? According to Julia Cameron, it's not laziness—it's fear. This week's chapter of The Artist's Way goes deep on identifying what keeps writers from…
- Week 7: Perfectionism: An Expensive Illusion · 46 mntA funny thing happened while we were reading the latest chapter of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. She actually had some good advice. That line about how making art is less…
- Week 8: When Art Hurts · 1 jam 4 mntMaking art can hurt — even when you're fully bought into The Artist's Way. This week Cameron tackles criticism and toxic teachers, and we suspect she's drawing from some personal…
- Week 6: The Pampering Paradox · 51 mntThe starving artist isn't a cliché for nothing — we've long assumed that art requires sacrifice, usually financial. But according to Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, a little…
- Week 5: The Virtue Trap · 53 mnt · Musim 4 Episode 7What gives? We hate this book but love talking about it. Week 5 of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way returns to her insistence that belief in a Great Creator unlocks opportunities…
- Week 4: The Morning Pages Report · 46 mntDo morning pages work? Specifically, do they work for us. We begin this podcast by discussing our success following the advice by Julia Cameron in her book The Artist Way to…
- Week 3: The Pushback · 59 mntShould you use anger to fuel your writing? Do you experience shame while creating art? Have you been keeping up with your artist pages? Week 3 of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way…
- Week 2: External Blockers (and Internal Doubts) · 1 jam 3 mntWe're on Week 2 of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, shifting from internal creative obstacles to external ones—namely our friends and family. We dig into Cameron's concepts of…
- Week 1: Let's Talk About Shadow Artists · 1 jam 24 mntWe're officially starting our Artist's Way journey—Julia Cameron's program for unlocking creativity—and we're already running into problems. Specifically, we take issue with some…
- The Morning Pages Experiment · 42 mntThree pages. Every morning. No exceptions. No mercy. We're going to unblock our inner artist using Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. For three months, we'll write…
- Starting The Artist's Way (Send Help) · 58 mntOver the past few months, we've taken a deep dive into AI writing tools. Now we're coming up for air and trying to reconnect with our human creative souls. What better book for…
- Robot Reporters Need Not Apply: A Journalist's Stand · 33 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 26We've been looking at how AI chatbots have been upending fiction writing, but how about in news media? Today we talk with former Wired writer and freelance science journalist…
- Teaching Kids to Write in the Age of ChatGPT · 56 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 35What if chatbots result in the next generation never learning to write? It's a doomsday scenario that we keep coming back to in our series on AI writing tools. If AI can craft…
- AI and Your Manuscript: Editor Kristen Tate's Honest Take · 51 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 34In our quest to cover the mind-blowing benefits AND the nightmare scenarios that AI chatbots are unleashing on the writing world, we called in friend-of-the-podcast and editor…
