The Emotional Writing Journey and Novel Writing Tips

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In this episode 355, we’re changing up the format with our fall season! We’ll preview some of the amazing authors we have coming up, but today we’re sharing insights into the emotional writing journey from The Write Quotes series. We’ll also take lessons from Meagan Church’s own journey from writing ad copy in a cubicle to publishing novels.

Today’s Featured Topics

Act 1:

This month we’re celebrating the release of book 7 in The Write Quotes series, The Emotional Writing Journey. Topics covered include rejection, pressure and fear, encouragement, self-care, and perseverance. In this episode we’ll share the foreword and reflections from the book and some of our favorite quotes.

Act 2:

When Your Writing Career Is in the Toilet: 5 Creative Writing Tips Learned in a Cubicle

by Meagan Church, author of The Last Carolina Girl, a searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House that follows one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own

From Meagan’s blog post, we take the following points:  

  • Have patience and embrace the part of the writing journey that you’re in. You never know how the lessons you’re learning along the way might help you later.
  • Even though taking notes isn’t always fun, it’s crucial to improving your writing.
  • Sharpen your creative writing by thinking like you’re writing ad copy: hook your reader right away, and be concise.

Act 3:  

Elevator Pitches:

Thanks to the following authors for sharing their elevator pitches:

Cara Kagan: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Sarah Mandelbaum

Lisa Kline: Ladies’ Day

Meagan Church: The Last Carolina Girl

Cheryl Babirad: I Did My Best

Mick Bennett: Take the Lively Air

Book Recommendations:

         Hannah recommends:

         All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

         Sarah recommends:

         The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

         Landis recommends:

         Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, 2nd Ed. by Renni Browne and Dave King

The Write Quotes Series:

Support the show by purchasing one or more of the eight books in The Write Quote series, a collection of writing quote books compiled from 500+ interviews with bestselling, award-winning, and hard-working authors. 

Learn more about our series of quote books and download Book 1 for free at https://charlottereaderspodcast.com/writequotes/