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Synopsis
How to get your brain "right," so you can write, a podcast on the psychology of writing; how to deal with fear, the internal editor, writer's block, life block, and everything else getting in the way of you writing.
Episodes
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Write Brain 2-37 What You're Not Supposed to Talk About
29/05/2019 Duration: 23minI get into the nitty-gritty of money, advances, royalties, and surviving on them.
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Write Brain 2-38 Dialogue and Characterization
22/05/2019 Duration: 20minGood dialogue means understanding that characters aren't talking about what they seem to be talking about and often don't understand their own motivations.
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Write Brain 2-36 My Memoir
15/05/2019 Duration: 21minWhat do you do when your project is just beyond all experience and shape?
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Write Brain 2-34 On Submission
08/05/2019 Duration: 16minWhat to do to avoid gnawing your hands off or annoying your agent to death while your book is on submission.
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Write Brain 2-35 Contracts Etc
01/05/2019 Duration: 15minMy thoughts on what to look for in contracts with publishers and agents.
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Write Brain 2-32 Making Dinner
10/04/2019 Duration: 15minAre you anxious about making dinner? Probably not. You have low expectations, so you just get out the ingredients and put them together. It doesn't have to be perfect, right?
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Write Brain 2-31 The Simple Things
03/04/2019 Duration: 13minLet's not forget the really simple, obvious things that can help anxiety including therapy, medication, exercise, food, sleep, and changing toxic relationships.
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Write Brain 2-30 Write More, Not Less
27/03/2019 Duration: 12minWhat if you gave yourself permission to write down all your ideas, not just the good ones? What would happen? Would it be bad or good?
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Write Brain 2-29 Parting Ways With Your Agent
25/03/2019 Duration: 12minTips on how to do it and remain friends, and also thoughts on when you need to do it.
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Write Brain 2-28 Ego
20/03/2019 Duration: 19minHow can it be less selfish to stop looking for validation outside of yourself and look inward instead? Well, it is.
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Write Brain 2-27 Creative Meditation
18/03/2019 Duration: 15minA daily five-minute practice designed to help with anxiety and center me back in my work.
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Write Brain 2-26 The Spiritual in the Creative
13/03/2019 Duration: 15minA bit about my spiritual life in the last ten years, and how it has informed my creative life.
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Write Brain 2-25 When Revisions Make Things Worse
11/03/2019 Duration: 20minEver been in the midst of a revision and had that sinking feeling that it's not salvageable?? Or that you're making it worse? This episode is about that. And no, I have no answers. Just commiseration.
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Write Brain 2-24 Outlines
08/03/2019 Duration: 24minThoughts on moving from discovery writing to outlining, how far to take outlining, and when to throw out the outline.
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Write Brain 2-23 Taxes
04/03/2019 Duration: 12minIt's the most--terrible time of the year. Real talk on taxes.
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Write Brain 2-22 A New Life
27/02/2019 Duration: 19minReinventing yourself, whether you want to or not.
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Write Brain 2-21 Fear part 2
25/02/2019 Duration: 10minHow can we learn from athletes about how to deal with fear in creative performance? (this is continued from part 1)
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Write Brain 2-21 Fear part 1
25/02/2019 Duration: 12minHow do athletes deal with fear of performance and what can other creative types learn from them? (This podcast was cut off and is continued in part 2)
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Write Brain 2-20 Ten Years Ago
20/02/2019 Duration: 10minLooking back at 2008, I am astonished at how much I've achieved in 10 years. And how much I've changed. I'm not the same person in so many ways. My writing career has changed entirely.