Writing in Progress Justin Creps & Jon Woolley

"I didn't want to just stay in one lane. I had lots of lanes that I loved."To say Rachael wears a lot of hats is a massive understatement. She's written (and illustrated!) her own children's book, a series of writers' prompts books, a comedic short story collection, an urban romance novella, and--most recently--a sci-fi western thriller, "Race to Novus". Oh, she also started her own small press, "Page Turn Press", which has recently released its first multi-author anthology, which Rachael edi...

It's Writing Battle season! We've got the spring micro competition on deck--2 days to write 500 words!Justin and Jon are joined again by two friends of the pod: two-time winner Maggie Schreier and 2023 MVW Trey Dowell!We had so much fun analyzing the genres and revealing (what we could) about our prompts together.We hope you have half as much fun as we did, listening along. :)

We give our reactions, impressions, thoughts, and opinions as we noodle with the 5 possible characters, 5 potential settings, and 1 mandatory object prompted in Writer's Playground's eighth playground challenge.We are joined by a friend of the pod, Ryan Fleming, who happens to be a former winner of the contest. His interview begins around the 22 minute mark, and the prompt discussion takes off about half an hour into the episode.Thanks for listening and please feel encouraged to reach ou...

Maggie has dozens of publishing credits to her name, is a Push Cart Nominee, has won Writer's Workout Writer's Games (twice), the YeahWrite Super Challenge, TL;DR's Wordherd, Iron Faerie Publishing's Betwixt Contest, and Writing Battle (twice!). She's also placed top 10 in both Writer's Playground and NYC Midnight.She also happens to be one of the most encouraging human beings in the whole prompted-writing-competition community!She joins us today to talk about her writing and promote he...

Justin and Jon give their initial reactions for this season's Writing Battle genres and live-react to their own draws.Just under 40 minutes into the episode, Friend-of-the-Pod Trey Dowell stops by to give his thoughts and joins in on the fun.Jon pushes his luck... can he defy the odds again??Listen to find out! :)

Justin and Jon continue their long-running series exploring how to write specific elements of a story. Today, they discuss the element they both ranked as the most important: characters. In this 2+ hour episode, Justin and Jon consulted the Writing Battle forums to ask for advice on how to capture the magic of an engaging character.