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An author is published regularly. Tim Goodwin and Art Franz are "writers," the people who work and scrape and publish (on occasion) but mostly faceplant, rise, brush off, and repeat. What does it take to learn how to tell good stories? How can I fully realize my characters? How do I gather quality feedback on works in progress? What can I do to punch through writer's block? What must we do to publish work in today's media landscape? No, really. We're asking. But we are also answering! Join T ...
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Is your creative battery drained or running low? Art describes how using role-playing can help free up your internal editor and create opportunities to explore new characterization. Art shares a story from his early role-playing days that demonstrates how a simple game can free you up to find unexpected studies in character. Tim and Art are here to…
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Tim and Art return for Season 4 by revisiting the fundamentals. Is your story missing something? Does your main character glide through your story with very little at stake? Is the action happening "around" them rather than your character struggling through it? Tim and Art present four easy button concepts to apply to ensure that you put your chara…
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With Season 4 just around the corner, Tim and Art offer a glimpse into their unscripted conversations about their own work. Up this week, Art responds to Tim's novel draft with encouragement and a path forward. Tim and Art are here to help, so email the show at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to get your conversation started.…
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The ”ideal reader” is that one person in the world, whether real or imagined, who really GETS what we are trying to do and who LOVES our take on fiction. In this Refill episode, Art demonstrates how Q&A can help you define what your "ideal reader" looks like. Knowing this can help you stay focused on the kind of fiction you want to produce as well …
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Have you ever been less than satisfied with your work in progress? Your latest drafts have you rethinking fundamental decisions you've made as a writer? Then join us as Tim cousels Art through his crisis of conscience about the quality of his work in progress. What should Art do to get back to the "good stuff"? In this episode, we reference a publi…
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It can be worthwhile to journal about your flaws, whether real or imagined. This is one of the many obstacles we face on our journey to create art. Art demonstrates how to be introspective and critique your own work as a way to refocus and improve rather than giving in to negative thinking. Tim and Art are here to help, so email the show at TiffinI…
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Tim and Art discuss how to get back into the right frame of mind to revise your fiction. When we decide to go back, why does that first draft read so much worse than we remember? How can you begin again once you've lost the initial spark of creativity? What's the right way to resume work without messing up what you've already done? Tim and Art are …
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Art discusses the process of "Active Reading" as a way to pan for gold in published stories. Reading authors with intentionality and purpose can help unlock elements of style or voice that you want to adopt. Art presents a method for getting the most writing benefit out of your reading experience. Tim and Art are here to help, so email the show at …
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Tim provides feedback on Art's story "Donut Fridays" from last week's Refill episode. This unscripted feedback session on Art's story is intended to demonstrate best practices of giving and receiving feedback with a trusted beta reader. Tim asks open-ended questions about choices Art made in the story, resulting in a "to do" list of things for Art …
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Art reads his 825-word short story "Donut Fridays" into the record in preparation for Tim's feedback during next week's episode. Art is open to your feedback, so if you want to share your thoughts on this draft of the story, email the show at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to help Art make this story the best it can be.…
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Tim and Art discuss their experiences in gaining (and losing and regaining) confidence in their writing output. They discuss how they know when a piece is “done” and ready for submission. They also reveal how imperative it is to reject the arrogance that sustained them in their youth because ultimately it made it harder to improve as professionals.…
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Tim and Art welcome guest Scott Farrin to the corner booth to discuss honing your writing process. Scott Farrin has taught writing in varied forms for over twenty years, composition, technical writing, journalism and creative writing. A writer himself as well as a professor of English at Collin College, Scott Farrin has published in journals such a…
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Tim and Art explore ways you can discover your writing voice through playing with different forms within your early drafts. Adopting new forms (such as prose poetry, screenplays, haiku, etc.) as an avenue of play can unlock new directions in your work. Even if you try and discard or try and adopt, the work of trying can lead to new ideas and help y…
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Tim and Art welcome guest author Kalynn Applewhite to the corner booth to discuss her process in staying disciplined year-round in writing as well as a glimpse into her self-publishing successes. Kalynn Applewhite is a writer at heart with a lifetime love of fantasy. She is a work-at-home mom and lead creator for Applewhite Games. Through her books…
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Tim and Art demonstrate best practices of giving and receiving feedback with an unscripted feedback session on Tim's flash fiction! Join us as we hear Tim's story read into the record, Art asking open-ended questions about choices Tim made in the story, Art's impression of the work, written feedback from editors who passed on the story, and finally…
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Tim and Art transport you back in time to Season 1 with a new segment we are calling a "REWIND." We plan to release our regularly scheduled REFILL episode as a Bonus later this month whenever Art's voice no longer crackles like a campfire (thanks, mystery virus!). This episode originally aired on April 25, 2023. Ever struggled to find the time (or …
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Tim and Art discuss the hallmarks of quality feedback to writers, especially how to sort out good advice from bad. They offer tips on how to deliver helpful feedback to your peers as well as how to convert bad advice into something useful. We're here to help, so e-mail us at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com with any questions, success stories, or…
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Tim and Art welcome the talented Cat Hammons into the corner booth to discuss best practices on collaborating with a writing partner as well as tips on writing for film and TV. Cat Hammons is an actor and writer born and raised in Ogden, UT. Her acting career includes the award-winning film For When You Get Lost and a variety of television shows su…
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As writers, we all need the right tools in our toolbelts. This season, Tim and I are using the refill episodes to discuss fundamental literary tools. These tools could be important terminology, useful literary devices, or foundational concepts that we think every writer can find valuable. In each refill episode, we plan to tackle two at a time. Thi…
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Tim and Art are back with an all-new season of discussions, tips, and ways to progress your stories! In this season 3 opener, Tim and Art discuss practical strategies for approaching your 2nd draft. Art offers three major steps including how to approach big note-taking when you read your 1st draft back, when and how to approach revising scenes, and…
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With the end of NaNoWriMo 2023, Tim and Art discuss what they learned about themselves and the process of writing after the month-long sprint, how they plan to use their time now that it is over, and what to do differently going forward. Stay in touch during the hiatus at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com. Feel free to share your thoughts on your …
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Tim and Art discuss their experience with NaNoWriMo 2023 as they look back on their personal successes and improvements resulting from Season 2. Tim and Art make a case for using the competency map as a fresh approach to educating fiction writers while teasing the editorial direction and some of the guests they expect to join them in Season 3. Tim …
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Tim and Art discuss the ways to create meaning in your manuscript through specific detail. Art offers a two-step process to creating memorable specific detail and a three-part justification of why you should do it. The episode ends with a list of three risks to avoid when deploying specific detail in your work. To connect with Tim and Art directly,…
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Art recaps the two tips to writing a setting that sings, keeping your setting from feeling "arbitrary" and building your setting from the "inside out." Mastering these two techniques will help your setting complement your characters, action, and theme. To connect with Tim and Art directly, email the show at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com.…
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Tim and Art discuss the two biggest takeaways from building a quality setting in your book. Tim and Art make a case for not allowing your setting to be arbitrary and to build it from the "inside out" to improve the reader's experience. Tim and Art also discuss their own in-progress manuscripts to illustrate where their book's settings are helping t…
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Theme is what your story is (in big capital letters) ABOUT... that central idea, untethered to the plot or characters, that emerges from the descriptions, situations, snippets of dialogue, symbols, and all the little choices you’ve made throughout the narrative. Art explores how Theme is emergent in your drafts, and identifies how to spot symbols, …
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Tim and Art discuss how themes arrive in your work, whether intentional or accidental. Does the author fully control the themes that are present? Or is the reader essential as a co-creator of the themes? Do you even need theme in your work? What is theme anyway? We have opinions! For a primer on the concept of theme, check out this exceptional essa…
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Art comes clean about how little progress he has made on his novel draft. The result is a hard look at why we let the everyday crowd out our writing time and, more importantly, how to recommit to the work. Art recaps how to use Draft Zero to plot out the nearest scenes (not the whole story) then ends the episode with two tactics for breaking throug…
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Tim and Art discuss the five main filters or "lenses" we can use to examine if our first draft dialogue is working hard enough. Join us for a discussion about Melody, Brevity, Plausibility, Tension, and Subtext. We tell a couple of personal stories, a few self-deprecating jokes, and set goals on how to attack dialogue in our revisions to ensure the…
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Art tells a little story that helps him remember the sequence of steps in the "Dive the Trench" plot structure, then recaps how each section helps build the narrative of your story. The steps of the "Dive the Trench" plot structure are listed below. It is based on the main character's power relative to the run time of the story, which creates a sla…
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Tim and Art deconstruct standard plot templates to uncover why they work. The result is a 10-point plot structure that chunks the larger story into manageable sections, thus allowing us to tackle the story in pieces. Compare the 10-point plan with your chosen plot template and see where they align! The result is a "Dive the Trench" plot structure b…
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Conflict is the fuel that keeps the engine of your story running. Art explores how to use three different types of conflict: Character vs. Themselves, Character vs. their Environment, and Character vs. Others. Using these broad categories, which are intentionally aligned with Aristotle, simplifies the process of selecting quality obstacles to boost…
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