by SWMP Admin | Feb 10, 2025 | Podcasts
Why Scope Matters, featuring Tara Dorabji This week we’re focusing on a little celebrated but much important aspect of storytelling: your story’s scope. How much ground are you trying to cover and how do you execute the pacing? These are the questions you must answer...
by SWMP Admin | Feb 3, 2025 | Podcasts
Writing Characters Your Readers Will Care About, featuring Sadeqa Johnson This week we’re looking into the stories that inspire and move us, focusing on those that focus on everyday characters who are extraordinary in their very ordinariness. We speak to guest Sadeqa...
by SWMP Admin | Jan 27, 2025 | Podcasts
Writing Retreat Roundup, featuring Connie Hale and Ellen Sussman Are you considering doing a writers’ retreat this year? Whether you want to create your own, find something far-flung and exotic, or consider the writing retreat’s bigger cousin, the writers’ conference,...
by SWMP Admin | Jan 20, 2025 | Podcasts
Creating the Heroes You Want to See in the World, featuring Lee Wind On this week’s show, we’re recognizing and honoring how far we’ve come in the world of fiction in the past decades since everyone in this week’s conversation remembers a time when there was no such...
by SWMP Admin | Jan 13, 2025 | Podcasts
On the Merits of Not Letting the Past Stay in the Past, featuring Susan Lieu This week we touch upon the struggle that presents itself for memoirists who can’t or won’t let the past stay in the past, especially when other people wish you would. Guest Susan Lieu shares...
