Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers

Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers


Latest Episodes

The Big Familia of Writing Inspiration, featuring Tomas Moniz
March 25, 2024

An episode about friendship, writing about friendship, and how friendship influences our writing lives. As a community-minded podcast, Write-minded has often touched upon the importance of a broader net of friendship on our writing. This week we get a bit

Other People’s Words, featuring Lissa Soep
March 18, 2024

This weeks Write-minded show examines the nuanced and deep exploration at the heart of guest Lissa Soeps new book,Other Peoples Words.A consideration of the ways others voices echo in our own, her book and this episode shows us a kaleidoscope of how

Light-hearted Writing During Heavy-hearted Times, featuring Neely Tubati-Alexander
March 11, 2024

Ready for a reprieve? Join Brooke and Grant and this weeks guest, NeelyTubati-Alexander, for a conversation about whether romance and rom-com writers are having more fun. We dive into questions of the success of the genre, what publishers are looking fo

Strategies for Writing About Childhood Trauma, featuring Javier Zamora
March 04, 2024

This week Write-minded wades into the important topic of writing about childhood trauma. Trauma is at the heart of many of our stories, whether youre writing coming-of-age or only touching upon childhood stories in the context of specific memoir scenes (

Recovering from the Stigma of a "Failed" First Novel, featuring Ethel Rohan
February 26, 2024

It's important to learn from the challenges of a failed book rather than allowing it to define your career. The publishing industry can be harsh and unforgiving to writers in this situation. Unforgiving as in agents abandoning the writer or publishers tur

Journeying into Writerly Aesthetic, featuring K-Ming Chang
February 19, 2024

A fun episode about aesthetic, language, and paying attention to style and taste in writing. This weeks guest K-Ming Chang talks about disorientation as a style, language as something that lives in the body, and hating plot. This is a playful interview t

Breaking Into Ghostwriting and Work-for-Hire Writing, featuring Aubre Andrus
February 12, 2024

Ghostwriting and work-for-hire are great ways to break into the publishing industry and to make a living as a writer. Guest Aubre Andrus shows us a side of the writing and publishing business that can seem a bit elusive. And more and more writers are taki

How Stories Get Carried Through the Generations and in Our Bones, featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras
February 05, 2024

This weeks Write-minded floats into the magical and surreal world of Ingrid Rojas Contreras, who talks about her new memoir,The Man Who Could Move Clouds,about her curandera-storytelling mother and their shared history of amnesia, and about why to her

Get Into Your Writing Using All the Senses, featuring Janet Fitch
January 29, 2024

In this gorgeous, sensualistic, tactile, provocative episode of Write-minded, we explore the senses with Janet Fitch ofWhite Oleanderfame. In this interview, Janet takes us on a tour through the senses, making the point that our language is impoverished

How to Be Self-Revealing in Memoir When You're Not In Real Life, featuring Dr. Brian H. Williams
January 22, 2024

This week's episode moves beyond inspiring and into the territory of important, essential, and recommended listeningand reading. Guest Dr. Brian H. Williams, author of the debut memoir,The Bodies Keep Coming,joins us to talk about his experience as a t