Ep121: How to Improve Your Craft

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.