by SWMP Admin | Sep 26, 2022 | Podcasts
Craft-minded series: Craft as Shaper of Story, featuring Morgan Talty In this third of six episodes in the Craft-minded series, Grant and Brooke speak with guest Morgan Talty about story form and how to listen for what your book wants to be. If, as a writer, you...
by SWMP Admin | Sep 19, 2022 | Podcasts
Craft-minded series: Characterization, featuring A.M. Homes This week kicks off a 6-week craft-minded series, starting with the great A.M. Holmes on characterization. In this episode we talk about dialogue, indirect and direct characterization, character tics, and how...
by SWMP Admin | Sep 12, 2022 | Podcasts
How to Have an Opinion in Memoir, featuring Mychal Denzel Smith This week’s episode is a celebration of opinion, of boldly stating what you mean and what matters to you and why. Writing is an exercise in truth-telling, and when it’s your personal truth—no matter what...
by SWMP Admin | Sep 5, 2022 | Podcasts
On Writing and Selling Trauma, featuring Stephanie Foo In her profound and moving new memoir, What My Bones Know, guest Stephanie Foo writes about trauma, and about a diagnosis of Complex PTSD that is lacking first-person narratives. In this week’s episode, the first...
