Entertaining our readers is not about spoon-feeding “what they want,” but offering them what we value, what we want to share, in a way that best allows them to receive it.
Oct 13, 2023•6 min•Season 1Ep. 20
When we make an excuse for why we don’t have the time to write or why can’t get published, we’re describing a reality we don’t want to live in. When we stop making these excuses, we give ourselves a chance to see a different, and better, reality.
Oct 06, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Humility isn’t saying you’re not a good writer, or that someone is better than you. It’s about learning how to be grateful for what provides inspiration, and what answers the questions that keep us up at night.
Sep 29, 2023•6 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Care about how you feel while you write. You always want to feel good and you never want to feel bad. Thinking some result out in the future is more important than how you feel in the present is a recipe for procrastination and failure.
Sep 22, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Every story has three arcs: the Physical Arc, the Emotional Arc, and the Intentional Arc. The Intentional, why the story is being told, is the most important, but often the hardest to find. Yet without it, the story has no meaning or center.
Sep 15, 2023•6 min•Season 1Ep. 16
We spend our lives trying to satisfy it, in the books we read and the books we write. The only reason you don’t like something you’ve written is because it doesn’t satisfy that aesthetic. Our trouble starts when we forget that.
Sep 08, 2023•7 min•Season 1Ep. 15
It’s not thinking. Our job is to have questions we’re interested in, ask them of our imagination, and then trust that the answer will come.
Sep 01, 2023•7 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Writing and sharing our work can be as normal as breathing. Unless, that is, we hold breath as we wonder if other people will like it.
Aug 25, 2023•7 min•Season 1Ep. 13
This isn’t school. This isn’t a math class. When you write fearlessly, there’s only one correct answer, and only you will ever know it.
Aug 18, 2023•6 min•Season 1Ep. 12
As writers we have to care as much about the words we use when we describe our own life and experiences, as we do when we describe a scene in our stories.
Aug 11, 2023•6 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Rejection, saying no to something, is a part of the creative process, not just what happens sometimes when people don’t like our stuff.
Aug 04, 2023•7 min•Season 1Ep. 10
You can’t read anyone’s mind, you can’t make anyone buy anything – and you don’t have to. Just share what is so awesome about your story.
Jul 28, 2023•7 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Writing is all about questions. We ask them, and something else answers. Ask the wrong question, and we’ll only get into trouble.
Jul 21, 2023•7 min•Season 1Ep. 8
It’s rare to be in the mood when you start. Your first and most important job is to get into that relaxed, curious, receptive state of mind, and then start writing.
Jul 14, 2023•6 min•Season 1Ep. 7
The inner critic isn’t going to help you. He or she is only the voice of fear.
Jul 06, 2023•7 min•Season 1Ep. 6
When we can learn to see fear as guidance, we can use the experience to help us stay in the moment, where all stories are actually told.
Jun 29, 2023•7 min•Season 1Ep. 5
There’s no book or author you have to read. You find what you need to read just like you’ll find the story you’re meant to tell.
Jun 23, 2023•7 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Bill debunks this very believable myth that actually interferes with us doing our best work.
Jun 16, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 3
I know you think you do. We all think we do. But we don't.
Jun 16, 2023•6 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Bill introduces the one fear that haunts writers of all experience levels. It’s not failure or bad reviews, but we face it every single time we sit down to write.
Jun 13, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 1
