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Pro-novelist mother and aspiring novelist daughter discuss writing fiction for love AND money -- and how to do it yourself.
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Tuesday Aug 21, 2018
Tuesday Aug 21, 2018
How to Write Fiction: Learning to Brainstorm Ideas for Plot
PART TWO: This experimental episode covers the closing up of the brainstorming. Author/Teacher Holly Lisle walks host and writer Rebecca Galardo through the consult phase of the session. Remember that when it comes to brainstorming you can go back and forth and falter. The purpose of the consulting author is to help guide and act as a tether, helping their fellow writer find their way through the story and uncover gems.
As with Part One, feel free to play along with free worksheets, downloadable immediately from the website (no need to give your email address or any other information). Using these worksheets and working with the Muse (right brain) and Inner Critic (left brain) Holly and Rebecca create story fragments from scratch. If you want to try what Holly now calls 'The Ball and The Wall' Technique, we will have the rules available as a download as well.
Join us in this week’s episode and if you have a question for us join us in the forums at HollysWritingClasses.com and get to typing!
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Thursday Aug 16, 2018
Thursday Aug 16, 2018
How to Write Fiction: How to NOT let Being a Writer Ruin Your Fiction Reading Enjoyment
No one wants to destroy the fun of reading by being a writer, but we sometimes become extremely critical of what we read.
Host Rebecca Galardo and Author/Teacher Holly Lisle answer a listener's question on what to do when the Inner Critic starts interfering with the fiction you READ as well as the fiction you write. Holly discusses the price you pay for being a writer, as well as how best to turn that to your advantage.
Join us in this week’s episode and if you have a question for us join us in the forums at HollysWritingClasses.com and get to typing!
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Tuesday Aug 14, 2018
Tuesday Aug 14, 2018
How to Write Fiction: Learning to Brainstorm Ideas for Plot
PART ONE: In this experimental episode, Author/Teacher Holly Lisle walks host and writer Rebecca Galardo through a brainstorming session.
Feel free to play along with free worksheets, downloadable immediately from their website (no need to give your email address or any other information). Using these worksheets and working with the Muse (right brain) and Inner Critic (left brain) Holly and Rebecca create story fragments from scratch.
Join us in this week’s episode and if you have a question for us join us in the forums at HollysWritingClasses.com and get to typing!
After the episode: Have something to say? A question to ask? Jump into the FREE forums at HollysWritingClasses.com (no purchase or ownership of courses necessary) and share with us.
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Tuesday Aug 07, 2018
Tuesday Aug 07, 2018
How to Write Fiction: How can I find what is wrong in my plot?
Debugging a Plot can be difficult even when you know what to look for, much less if you're completely unsure.
Host and writer Rebecca Galardo and Author/Teacher Holly Lisle broach the topic of Debugging a Plot, covering an easy definition of plot, problems that can arise when one goes awry, good plots, and directions to look for when trying to figure out how to fix what breaks.
Join us in this week’s episode and if you have a question for us join us in the forums at HollysWritingClasses.com and get to typing!
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Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
How to Write Fiction: How to Build a Better Character
Host and writer Rebecca Galardo discusses Building a Better Character with Author/Teacher Holly Lisle, covering problems writers face with characters, how to overcome those problems, what a good character is and does, and more.
Join us in this week's episode and if you have a question for us join us in the forums at HollysWritingClasses.com and get to typing!
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Monday Jul 23, 2018
Monday Jul 23, 2018
How to Write Fiction: How to Deal with Your Inner Critic & Left Brain
Host Rebecca Galardo discusses the topic of The Inner Critic with Author/Teacher Holly Lisle, covering how it is both harmful and helpful to your fiction, how to use it to your benefit and also how to shut it off when you need to be focusing on your muse.
Join us in this week's episode and if you have a question for us join us in the forums at HollysWritingClasses.com and get to typing!
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Monday Jul 23, 2018
Monday Jul 23, 2018
How to Write Fiction: Who are these people?
Host Rebecca Galardo and Author/Teacher Holly Lisle briefly introduce themselves and their new weekly podcast, Alone in a Room with Invisible People, which takes on writing, revising, and publishing fiction.
Holly Lisle is a writer with over 30 years of traditional (Been, Tor, Scholastic, etc) and indie publications. She's been sharing and teaching what she knows since founding her first site in 1998. Holly - the star of the podcast - teaches at HollysWritingClasses.com (the sponsor of this podcast) and creates the workshops featured in many episodes.
Rebecca Galardo has been writing since she was 11. Growing up as Holly's daughter, she has had a lot of experience learning directly from the source. She's awaiting a response on her first traditionally submitted novel and is currently working on a new series she intends to self publish. Rebecca produces, edits and chooses most content for the podcast.
Join us in this week's episode and if you have a question for us join us in the forums at HollysWritingClasses.com and get to typing!
After the episode: Have something to say? A question to ask? Jump into the FREE forums at HollysWritingClasses.com (no purchase or ownership of courses necessary) and share with us.
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