Writing Craft & Coffee Pod

Jon Sulek

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Just an avid sci-fi & fantasy reader and writer. Here to discuss and dissect story mechanics, novel structure, and speculative worlds—over many cups of coffee * Podcast audio files are AI generated using Gemini Notebook based off articles and content written by Jon C. Sulek, Creative Synthesis Editorial. cseditorial.substack.com

3d ago

I (You) Don’t Have to Do More

I (You) Don’t Have to Do More Don't get caught up in the analytics of building an audience. Focus on the things that make you enjoy writing and focus on improving your craft. * Podcast audio files are AI generated using Gemini Notebook based off articles and content written by Jon C. Sulek, Creative Synthesis Editorial. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cseditorial.substack.com
4d ago

The Wrap Up on Visual Storytelling

This bonus episode is a wrap-up of visual storytelling, what writers put in or don’t put into screenplays, and how specific decisions in prose can entirely “flip the script,” so to speak. The pieces referenced are: * “Three Words” (Screenplay) * “The Rest of the Story” (Prose short story) * Podcast audio files are AI generated using Gemini Notebook based off articles and content written by Jon C. Sulek, Creative Synthesis Editorial. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cseditorial.substack.com
Oct 1

The Wiggle Room Your Creative Writing Doesn’t Need

The Wiggle Room Your Creative Writing Doesn't Need Are you equivocating subconsciously in your personal prose? Are you writing timidly and flattening your writing? Today we take a look at why. Works Referenced * King, Stephen. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. Scribner, 2000. * Podcast audio files are AI generated using Gemini Notebook based off articles and content written by Jon C. Sulek, Creative Synthesis Editorial. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cseditorial.substack.com
Sep 17

WCC215 - Visual Storytelling

The Three Words Writers Hate Show Dont Tell How to show your readers what's happening on the page so that they keep turning to the next one. * Podcast audio files are AI generated using Gemini Notebook based off articles and content written by Jon C. Sulek, Creative Synthesis Editorial. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cseditorial.substack.com
Sep 10

Begin After It Has Begun, Part II

Begin After It Has Begun, Part II Not sure where to start your story? It doesn't have to be the beginning. As a matter of fact, it can be right the very end. * Podcast audio files are AI generated using Gemini Notebook based off articles and content written by Jon C. Sulek, Creative Synthesis Editorial. Works Referenced * American Beauty. Directed by Sam Mendes. Los Angeles: DreamWorks Pictures, 1999. * Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993. * Herbert, Frank. Dune. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1965. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cseditorial.substack.com
Sep 3

Begin After It Has Begun, Part I

Begin After It Has Begun, Part I Sometimes when you don't know where to start your story, the best place is not the beginning. * Podcast episodes are AI generated using using Gemini Notebook based off of original content written by Jon C. Sulek, Creative Synthesis Editorial. Works Referenced * Goodfellas (1990), directed by Martin Scorsese * Frankenstein (1818), Mary Shelley * Fight Club (1996), Chuck Palahniuk; film (1999), directed by David Fincher * Twilight (2005), Stephenie Meyer This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cseditorial.substack.com
Aug 27

The Cosmos of Character

Great characters are built with gravitational mass that bends the story around them. In this episode, we look at four essential touchstones that pull readers in. * Podcast audio files are AI generated using Gemini Notebook based off articles and content written by Jon C. Sulek, Creative Synthesis Editorial. Works Referenced Asimov, Isaac. Foundation. Clarke, Arthur C. Rendezvous with Rama. Foundation. Created by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman, Apple TV+, 2021–present. * Host content is AI generated using Gemini Notebook based off original articles and content written/produced by Jon C. Sulek of Creative Synthesis Editorial. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cseditorial.substack.com
Aug 20

Writers, Beware the Contagion

On today's episode our AI Hosts talk about how the books you love don't just teach you—they infect you. And that contagion is exactly how you become a writer worth reading. * Podcast audio files are AI generated using Gemini Notebook based off articles and content written by Jon C. Sulek, Creative Synthesis Editorial. Just a Few of My Victims (Works Referenced) Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller (Viking Press, 1949) “The Killers” — Ernest Hemingway (short story, 1927; collected in Men Without Women) Starship Troopers — Robert A. Heinlein (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1959) Telling Lies for Fun and Profit — Lawrence Block (Arbor House, 1981) The Spenser novels — Robert B. Parker (beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript, 1973) 1984 — George Orwell (Secker & Warburg, 1949) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick (Doubleday, 1968) The Dragonlance Chronicles — Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (TSR, 1984–1985) The Sword of Shannara — Terry Brooks (Random House, 1977) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cseditorial.substack.com

Just an avid sci-fi & fantasy reader and writer. Here to discuss and dissect story mechanics, novel structure, and speculative worlds—over many cups of coffee * Podcast audio files are AI generated using Gemini Notebook based off articles and content written by Jon C. Sulek, Creative Synthesis Editorial. cseditorial.substack.com

Creator

Jon Sulek
Years Active

2026
Episodes

19
Rating

Clean
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