Three Writers Make a Left

Keeping the fire alive/a more “professional” relationship with writing. Is it selling out? Hating books - how I became the odd one out for hating a book everyone else loved Why you don’t cliffhanger, The Good Place When is it time to backburner a project? (I refuse to say abandon!) Diversity in Books “A lot of writing, storytelling, and even publishing advice is bullshit—but never forget, bullshit fertilizes.” -Chuck Wendig, Damn Fine Story

1) Writing during the Holidays 2) The Way of Kings, and why the best parts of this giant book are the little stories that make it up 3) Losing interest in your favorite genres 4) East of West, and why letting your reader wonder about things is a good thing 5) I’m *finally* working on my Power Rangers story! Let me tell you about it. 6) Star Wars the Last Jedi, and the fan response

Drunk texting great ideas is a bad idea Spider-Man Homecoming: and creating an ensemble Aaron writes (terrible) poetry! Ira Glass has advice - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to-people-who-are-beginners-i-wish Putting a book down- It’s not a bad book, but I’m not interested in reading/listening to it anymore. I finished the West Wing on the Fourth of July and I just want to talk about how great this show was Help Aaron tease out whether his new book is actually YA https://www.standoutbooks.com/key-ingredients-young-adult-novels/

On this week's episode; Interacting with the writing community, finding and joining writers groups, how willing are you to critique another’s work, how do you get out of awkward situations. The good, the bad, the weird. Harry Dresden, getting older, and what we go to fiction for. Neil Gaiman on Writer’s Block: http://www.prbythebook.com/writers-block-isnt-real-and-other-lessons-from-neil-gaiman/ What’s the weirdest thing or hardest thing we’ve done for our writing? I spent half a day reading Urban Dictionary definitions and I don’t know what life is anymore, but I do know waffle stomping. What are some things you would never write about? (For example, would you ever write from the perspective of a black slave as a non-black American? Would you ever write about a woman on her period as a man, or about a man getting a vasectomy as a woman?) Can we interrogate where that line is?

In this week's episode we cover Our Hogwarts Houses Harry Potter Trigger Game Don’t you know how good you are? - Debut Authors Do you have any pet-peeves as a reader? Are there things that - while not necessarily a mark of bad writing - just immediately turn you off? When stories move to other mediums? Do we take them seriously? How cannon do we consider them? Do we bother checking these spinoffs out? Guardians of the Galaxy Telltale game Pullman, Green, Brown, Follett, and Grisham?! - Is it possible to have too many huge releases one after the other? As a reader, how badly do you need a book opening week? What if 5 of your favorite authors released their books on the same week? How do you choose?

In this weeks episode we cover The new Amazon Bookstore Authors at cons - the self-published vs. the published The demands of quality vs. the demands of time - my ever-changing writing process How much do we care about spoilers? The unexpected benefits of having cowriters - Babylon 5 Why do you want to be a writer/just write? What is it about stories that compel you?