Day 21: Take Care of Your Instrument
Host: Sam Chupp, author of Heart of the Hunter
This is just a reminder as to how you might best take care of your primary writing instrument: your brain.
Day 20: Writers Block when Under the Gun
Host: Tee Morris, author of Morevi, Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword, and co-founder of Podiobooks.com.
Writers Block when Under the Gun
Day 19: Exercise: Good for the Body, Good for the Writer’s Mind
Host: Ken Newquist, publisher of the Nuketown Webzine, host of Nuketown Radio, game designer/review, and writer.
Exercise: Good for the Body, Good for the Writer’s Mind
Day 18: The Joy of Stream of Consciousness
Host: Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff, author of Number One With A Bullet, Shadow Falls: Badlands, and many more.
Use your stream of consciousness to your advantage.
Day 17: Allowing Yourself To Lose The Plot
Host: Jared Axelrod, host of The Voice of Free Planet X and Aliens You Will Meet, author of Tales from the Uncanny Valley
Characters and situations quite often don’t follow the paths we set out for them. Why that’s okay and how you can work with it.
Day 16: The Merits of yWriter
Host: P. G. Holyfield, author of Murder at Avedon Hill
Learn the joy that is yWriter. Links:
Day 15: Who am I writing for anyway?
Host: Phil Rossi, author of Crescent
The sweet bliss of the first draft. Writing to tell yourself the story. You’ve seen yourself naked plenty of times; no need to be shy in this stage of the game.
Day 14: Wake up, and Try Again
Host: Sam Chupp, author of Heart of the Hunter
Having trouble getting any words down yet? Don’t let yourself fall into despair. Wake up this morning, or tomorrow morning, and try again.
Day 13: Listen to the music you’re making.
Host: Seth Harwood, author of Jack Wakes Up, Jack Palms II: This Is Life, and A Long Way from DisneyThis is all about writing from the strength of your sentences, listening to your music, instead of trying to stick to the truths you think you know.
Day 12: Dispatches from Middle Earth
Host: P. G. Holyfield, author of Murder at Avedon Hill and Phillipa Ballantine, author of Chasing the Bard
This is Pip Ballantine’s Nano Party, straight from New Zealand. Enjoy!
