9 episodes
Write Where We Belong (3WB) Steve, The Writing Fool
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- Education
This series serves the visionaries, the people who have written, the people who may someday write, storytellers, dreamers, plotters and schemers. It is geared toward the residents of the fiction writing community and those who are trying to find a way in.
Throughout this series, we’ll talk about creativity, the writing process, the stumbling blocks and solutions, what to do when the well runs dry, and what to do when you want to write but have no time.
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Learning to Love the Red Pen
Writers tend to think of writing as creating and editing as a destructive chore. This episode discusses how to make the transition from the role of writer to the editor's role. We also learn how prepare ourselves to perform the emotion-free editing which is necessary for making our stories better.
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World Building
Science fiction and fantasy writers know that one of the more important elements of developing their stories is world building -essentially creating the environment where the story takes place. Whether it’s dystopian cyberpunk or magical fantasy with six legged unicorns doesn’t matter. Setting up the world in a way that lacks credibility or pulls focus away from the story you want to tell is a recipe for rewrite.
This episode is about world building, and some of the things to consider while you are burrowing down the rabbit holes of your imagination. -
It may be real, but is it real good?
We all want to keep it real when we write, after all accuracy is important. But how real is too real? This episode discusses how we can naturally keep the story moving forward without getting bogged down in the mundane.
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Writing in Traffic
It's ridiculously easy not to write. However, writers can leverage non-writing time to enrich their stories just by paying attention to what's going on around them. Non-writers surrounded by cars rolling bumper to bumper see only a traffic jam. A writer, on the other hand, sees the details that can be used to enrich his or her next story.
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Should You Throw in the Towel?
Is it time to call it quits or to dig in and plug away? Writers frequently struggle with this question. We agonize over the results of our writing process. Something gets lost between the vision in our head and the draft we create. Discouraged when we reread a few pages, we succumb to the feeling that we have somehow fallen short, that we lack the talent, and will never meet our ultimate writing goals. This episode discusses the questions to ask yourself before you throw in the towel.
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There are a million stories. Do you have one to tell?
This episode discusses the story, what it is and what it can be. While many elements make a story great, Steve focuses on creating characters that help keep the reader engaged.