Ep121: How to Improve Your Craft

Writer Craft Podcast

Show Notes:

• "reading, writing, and 'rithmitic"
• read a lot, in different genres, but especially in your own (to capture common tropes, obligatory scenes, and reader expectations)
• write a lot. Even if no one sees it. Even if it isn't specifically about your project.
• put in the time, the numbers.
• developing taste by reading
• developing voice: word choice, tonality, themes, The Anatomy of a Bestseller by Sacha Black
• developing craft and style: follow twists and turns
• Thinking in Pictures by John Sayles
• The Art of Dramatic Writing
• The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo
• Be around creative people.
• Writing in Restaurants by David Mamet
• people watching and eavesdropping

Next Episode: Talking with Brock Swinson, host of Creative Principles Podcast, and author of Ink by the Barrel.