You Know That's Write

In this episode, we're kicking off season two of You Know That's Write by talking about character arcs. How does a character change over the course of a story? Do they get better or worse? Do they even need to change? We'll discuss all this and more in this episode.

In this end-of-semester special, we'll be covering the topic of essay-writing! We'll give some advice from our experiences, as well as swap some horror stories. Enjoy our first episode back from hiatus! Link to "i'm BUSY": https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4hLtiN2fOcGzVpU52rzmXw?si=e7b0ea02f7214a0a

In today's episode, we celebrate International Women's History Month by discussing the writing experiences of several iconic female authors who have been incredibly influential to the literary world.

This episode is all about the stories and myths that have stuck with us as a society through the generations. Stories that have become so integrated into our culture that we just keep retelling them.

In this episode, we'll cover every writer's biggest fear: writer's block. We'll define it, discuss famous authors who have struggled with it (and share some of their advice), and share our own experiences and methods of combatting it.

For our tenth episode, we decided to explore something near and dear to our hearts: collaborative writing. We started this podcast together, so we thought it was only fitting to celebrate this mini-milestone with a discussion about how we write together.

This episode is all about exploring what makes up a unique writing style. Genre, point of view, focus of the story, and other miscellaneous quirks all contribute to style, and we will identify and explain these key elements.

In this episode, we're going back to the roots of any good writer: reading. We'll reminisce over childhood favorites, discuss the classics we enjoy, and rave over our current favorites.

In this episode, we'll talk about romantic subplots. We'll discuss common tropes, good and bad examples in media, and how we incorporate romance into our own writing.

In part two of this special episode, you'll hear about Madelyn's work-in-progress, "The Luminex." We'll get into how the story has evolved over the years, the main cast, and the worldbuilding. We hope you've enjoyed this special set of episodes!

This is a very special two-part episode where we'll talk about our own writing projects. In part one, Elise will talk about her project, "The Dagger of Achilles." You'll meet her main cast of characters, and learn a little bit about the story. (Part two will air next week instead of our normal bi-weekly episode.)

This episode is all about different types of protagonists. We'll talk about our favorite tropes, the protagonists in our own writing, and how different strategies work.

In this episode, we discuss villain archetypes and characteristics. We'll bring up examples from media, talk a little about the villains in our own writing, and discuss why villains are so enjoyable to work with.

In this episode, we'll delve into the details of worldbuilding. We'll talk about systems of government, naming things, magic, and more. We'll also discuss the idea of under-developing or over-developing worlds.

In this episode, we're going to talk about how we create characters for our stories. We'll discuss character arcs, look at examples from media, explore key character traits, and see how we've developed our processes over time.

In our first episode, we'll talk about how we began our creative writing journey. We'll explore early writing attempts, key inspirations, and what prompted us to start writing seriously.