61 episodes
London Writers' Salon Parul Bavishi, Matthew Trinetti
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5.0 • 37 Ratings
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What does it take to launch, grow and sustain a successful career as a writer? Listen in each week as Matt & Parul, two friends and founders of the London Writers' Salon, sit down with a writer they admire – from best-selling novelists to popular bloggers, award-winning playwrights, journalists, poets, and more – to explore the mindset, practical tools, craft secrets and creative practices they use to write well, publish often, and build successful and sustainable writing careers.
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#061: Joanna Nadin — Lessons From Writing 90+ Books for Kids, Teens & Adults, Writing Tools & Plotting Your Book
Award-winning author of 90 books, Joanna Nadin, talks about writing engaging stories for and about kids, and the writing practices and tools that have helped her write so many books and how she plots her stories.
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#060: Natalie Lue & Hattie Crisell — Forging A Portfolio Career: From Journalism To Starting A Substack Newsletter, Launching A Podcast, Self Publishing and Landing A Publishing Deal
Natalie Lue (@natlue) and Hattie Crisell (@hattiehattie) are writers who have forged successful portfolio careers. We explore their adventures in journalism, blogging, podcasting and publishing. We dive into the reality of forging a portfolio career and they give us advice for how they might start today.
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#059: Madeleine Dore — Rethinking Writing Ruts & Routines, Imperfect Creative Processes, Substack, Blogging, Creative Cycles
Madeleine Dore, author of ‘I Didn’t Do The Thing Today’ on rethinking writing routines and ruts and embracing imperfection in the creative process.
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#058: Steven Pressfield — The War of Art, Battling Resistance, Having A Creative Calling, Writing Memoir
Steven Pressfield on what it means to have a creative calling, faith, his experience writing across multiple genres, and his latest memoir, Govt Cheese.
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#057: Abigail Bergstrom — On Becoming A Literary Agent, Tips For Building An Author Brand, Inside the Publishing Industry, Recovering From Burnout
Literary Agent and writer Abigail Bergstrom on her publishing career, choosing to leave editing for agenting, facing and recovering from burnout and her advice for authors developing their brand. Plus her journey of writing her debut novel: What a Shame.
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#056: Jonathan Escoffery — Writing Award-Winning Short Stories, World Building, Managing Reader Anticipation, Dynamic Storytelling
Short story writer Jonathan Escoffery on his process for writing his short story collection, If I Survive You, how he thinks about world building, managing reader anticipation, how questions of identity influence his work, and tips for writing dynamic, moving short stories.
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