Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers
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Breaking Into Ghostwriting and Work-for-Hire Writing, featuring Aubre Andrus
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
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
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
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
Hidden Stories, featuring Vanessa Chan
Hidden stories are at the heart of many a novel and memoir, driving writers, often from very young ages, toward exploration, uncovering, and the desire to seek for and know truths. Vanessa Chans new novel, The Storm We Made, is one such story, spawned by
The Future of the Book, featuring Maja Thomas
Books were just books for hundreds of years, but in the past 20 years, we've experienced major shifts in how we read and write. Plus, were on the brink of another revolution with AI that will change what we know and think we know about book publishing. T
The New Year's Un-resolution Show
Happy New Year! On this weeks Write-minded, Brooke and Grant take stock of last years resolutions and hold their own feet to the fire on what was cast out for resolutions, and what was accomplished (or not). Were probing the resolution, therefore, as w
The Subtle Art of Attunement and Its Bearing on Our Writing, featuring Baron Wormser
This week were slowing down, inviting listeners to contemplate another world both far and not far away from this one where theres no electricity, no internet, no immediate access to all the informat
Finding and Building the Community That’s Right for You, with Alexa Bigwarfe
This week on Write-minded were coming back to a well-loved topic: Community!
The Higher Truth of Fiction, featuring Jamila Minnicks
Join Grant and Brooke this week for a conversation about truthemotional truth, essential truth, truth as the core driver of all stories.