Ranked #1
Episode 129: Giving Notes: What You Need to Know
Episode 129: Giving Notes: What You Need to Know
17 Mar 2020
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35mins
Ranked #2
Episode 49: Letting Go of Perfectionism, Trusting Your Obsessions, Playing the Long Game: Caille Millner
Episode 49: Letting Go of Perfectionism, Trusting Your Obsessions, Playing the Long Game: Caille Millner
Caille Millner is an award-winning writers across genres, writing memoir, fiction, and, for the San Francisco Chronicle,... Read more
17 Nov 2016
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43mins
Ranked #3
Episode 62: Story Problem: Concrete Goals for Writers, Filmmakers, and Characters
Episode 62: Story Problem: Concrete Goals for Writers, Filmmakers, and Characters
18 May 2017
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31mins
Ranked #4
Episode 127: Leveling Up: Lessons in Story and the Gamification of Learning
Episode 127: Leveling Up: Lessons in Story and the Gamification of Learning
25 Feb 2020
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31mins
Ranked #5
Episode 72:The Girl on the Bookstore Train: What Authors Need to Know to Market Their Books
Episode 72:The Girl on the Bookstore Train: What Authors Need to Know to Market Their Books
20 Jun 2018
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37mins
Ranked #6
Episode 29: Craft and Plot in Novel and Memoir. A talk with Janis Cooke Newman.
Episode 29: Craft and Plot in Novel and Memoir. A talk with Janis Cooke Newman.
We had such a rich and helpful conversation with the multitalented Janis Cooke Newman, author of memoir and novels, edit... Read more
5 May 2016
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44mins
Ranked #7
Episode 40: Shaping Real Life into Story: a Documentary Editor’s View Jean Kawahara
Episode 40: Shaping Real Life into Story: a Documentary Editor’s View Jean Kawahara
Jean Kawahara is a documentary editor as well as a writer, and she had great insights into the process of shaping real l... Read more
10 Aug 2016
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54mins
Ranked #8
Episode 106: Authenticity
Episode 106: Authenticity
9 Jul 2019
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41mins
Ranked #9
Episode 53: Hard choices: prioritizing your writing and when to use scene
Episode 53: Hard choices: prioritizing your writing and when to use scene
9 Feb 2017
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43mins
Ranked #10
Episode 121: Unforgettable: Examples and Theories on What Makes a Story Stick
Episode 121: Unforgettable: Examples and Theories on What Makes a Story Stick
31 Dec 2019
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35mins
Ranked #11
Episode 97: Rachel Howard – Working on Why Now
Episode 97: Rachel Howard – Working on Why Now
23 Apr 2019
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39mins
Ranked #12
Episode 43: Creative Muscle Memory: Author Gretchen Atwood on Research, Proposals and Scenes for Non-fiction Books
Episode 43: Creative Muscle Memory: Author Gretchen Atwood on Research, Proposals and Scenes for Non-fiction Books
We were thrilled to sit down with Book Writing World alum Gretchen Atwood to discuss her newly released book, Lost Champ... Read more
15 Sep 2016
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45mins
Ranked #13
Episode 37: Shaping Memoir, Inventing Scene: A Discussion with Ground-breaking Feminist Economist Myra Strober
Episode 37: Shaping Memoir, Inventing Scene: A Discussion with Ground-breaking Feminist Economist Myra Strober
We had an inspiring and far-ranging conversation with feminist economist Myra Strober about her new memoir, Sharing the ... Read more
21 Jul 2016
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41mins
Ranked #14
Episode 63: Macro Despair/ Micro Success: Editing, Agents, Writing Retreats and the Shared Love of Story with Editor Molly Schulman
Episode 63: Macro Despair/ Micro Success: Editing, Agents, Writing Retreats and the Shared Love of Story with Editor Molly Schulman
2 Jun 2017
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46mins
Ranked #15
Episode 79: Getting Lost to Find Your Theme: Laurie Ann Doyle
Episode 79: Getting Lost to Find Your Theme: Laurie Ann Doyle
7 Nov 2018
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46mins
Ranked #16
Episode 120: What’s the Point? Why We Write
Episode 120: What’s the Point? Why We Write
16 Dec 2019
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24mins
Ranked #17
Episode 105: Exit Your Comfort Zone
Episode 105: Exit Your Comfort Zone
25 Jun 2019
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37mins
Ranked #18
Episode 87: The Good, The Bad, and Just Writing
Episode 87: The Good, The Bad, and Just Writing
15 Jan 2019
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38mins
Ranked #19
Episode 39: The Artist’s Ability: Shaping a Memoir, Shaping a Creative Life, a conversation with author Joyce Scott
Episode 39: The Artist’s Ability: Shaping a Memoir, Shaping a Creative Life, a conversation with author Joyce Scott
Joyce has an amazing, important story to tell about an artist, Joyce’s twin sister Judy, who had so much against her--un... Read more
4 Aug 2016
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41mins
Ranked #20
Episode 77: Taking the Scene-ic Route
Episode 77: Taking the Scene-ic Route
28 Sep 2018
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32mins