Romance Writer's Therapy Authors Marty Vee and Kate Prior

Marty and Kate have a special episode for this season finale: reading ~1500 words of their current projects, and then giving critiques to each other. 

Warning: Kate says the phrase "lean in" about a hundred times. 

Enjoy this repost! Kate and Marty are feeling the pressure of time and they weren't able to record this week. BUT next week will be the season finale, where they share writing and give criticism. So this episode seemed appropriate. 

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Kate wrote a prompt for this episode about what it is to dissect the meaning of love over an over again as a romance author, Marty interprets it as a craft question, Kate interprets it as an introspective question. Neither feel like they full answered the prompt. 

Apologies for Sounds of Opening Mail in the first few minutes of the episode.

Kate and Marty discuss:

Progress by Wordcounts and Nanowrimo
Shelving Projects and Coming Back to them
How was Your Halloween?
Not Impressed with Past Selves
It Takes 200 Hrs for Marty to Write A Whole Book
Rest Is Productive
24 Hr Plays and Being Too Tired to Sleep
Understanding Where Your Genre's Market Is At
Marty Outlines Her 2024 Writing Plans
Niche Troubles
Kate Can't Conceptualize Time Further Out Than A Month

Summary of the Strategy:
Continue Building Backlist
Apologize to the Buisness Majors, It Is Actually Hard Stuff
Do Math
Figure Out How Much Writing You Get Done Every Year
Different Kinds of Sales

This was an idea for an episode we had a while back. Think of it as a demonstration of soundboarding, something we end up mentioning really late in the show. 

It's all in the title this episode, Marty and Kate talk about the myriad of different ways a character can grow, what growth can look like and how it can serve the plot, as well as a really long (still relevant) discussion about Pride & Prejudice.