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A podcast on writing that explores the craft of fiction, answers listeners' questions, and provides strategies for a fulfilling writing practice and creative life, hosted by bestselling, award-winning novelist Nina LaCour.
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Signup to Generate a PitchA podcast on writing that explores the craft of fiction, answers listeners' questions, and provides strategies for a fulfilling writing practice and creative life, hosted by bestselling, award-winning novelist Nina LaCour.
Keeping a Notebook is hosted by Nina LaCour. The show has published 28 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Projects & Practice" (30 December 2025, 13 minutes), "Truth & Beauty" (23 September 2020, 14 minutes), and "Gaslight" (22 September 2020, 13 minutes).
Keeping a Notebook publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 11 minutes across 28 episodes.
Booking probability for Keeping a Notebook is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Keeping a Notebook requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Keeping a Notebook's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Keeping a Notebook are Artists, Writers & Performers. Keeping a Notebook has an arts audience.
Nina LaCour hosts Keeping a Notebook, an arts podcast with 28 episodes published.
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Episode #1
Read more and enroll in Projects & Practice . Read more and enroll in Winter Writing Nights: Exploring Voice and Language in Fiction . Subscribe to Nina's newsletter . ALSO! If you enroll in BOTH classes, you'll receive...
Episode #4
Purchase Nina's new novel, Watch Over Me. Register for a morning of writing with Nina to benefit Diesel, A Bookstore. Enroll in Writing, Reading, Responding: The art of drafting and critiquing, in which Nina and Elana...
Episode #3
You can rent Gaslight here . (Highly recommended!) Purchase Nina's new novel, Watch Over Me. Register for a morning of writing with Nina to benefit Diesel, A Bookstore. Enroll in Writing, Reading, Responding: The art of...
Episode #2
Wednesday, September 16th with Tiffany D. Jackson 5 p.m. PST/ 7 p.m. CST/ 8 p.m. EST, hosted by YA @ Books Inc. Learn more and register here ! Thursday, September 17th with Stephanie Perkins 3 p.m. PST/5 p.m. CST/6 p.m...
Episode #1
Join Nina in celebration of Watch Over Me 's release! (If you order from a hosting bookstore, you'll receive a signed bookplate with your copy of Watch Over Me .) Tuesday, September 15th with Brandy Colbert 5 p.m. PST/7...
Episode #4
Announcement: The Slow Novel Lab is open for a special summer benefit session, with 50% of the profit going to Direct Relief! Nina examines messiness and her complicated feelings about it, both in herself and in others...
Episode #3
Announcement: The Slow Novel Lab is open for a special summer benefit session, with 50% of the profit going to Direct Relief! Nina examines the anchors in her life: her work, her desk, the mug she drinks her morning...
Episode #2
Nina contemplates the windows in her new apartment, and what it's like to be on the inside when people outside pass by. She offers a two-part exercise for her listeners to be used first as a method of noticing and being...
Keeping a Notebook
About the Shelter in Place podcast, hosted by Laura Joyce Davis: When the news came down about the mandate to shelter in place, Bay Area writer Laura Joyce Davis decided to mark this moment in history by chronicling her...
Episode #1
This season opens in Nina's new home. She shares a story of disorientation, and finds her way back to writing. She invites listeners to write with her. To keep a notebook of these times. She offers a writing exercise as...
Episode #4
New! Full transcripts of this season's episodes are now available at ninalacour.com/transcripts! Learn more about Nina's online class, The Slow Novel Lab! ninalacour.com/the-slow-novel-lab Today, Nina walks listeners...
Episode #3
The Slow Novel Lab is now open for enrollment! Join the conversation at The Slow Novel Lab Instagram ! Subscribe to Letters from Nina for more writing tips, book news and special offers! Highlights: I want to experience...
Join the conversation at The Slow Novel Lab Instagram ! Subscribe to Letters from Nina for more writing tips, book news, and to hear when The Slow Novel Lab opens for enrollment! Highlights: -We need something to...
Episode #1
Join the conversation at The Slow Novel Lab Instagram ! Subscribe to Letters from Nina for more writing tips, book news, and to hear when The Slow Novel Lab opens for enrollment! Read Jocelyn K. Glei's blog post, " How...
Keeping a Notebook
Nina talks about how life sometimes interrupts plans and shares some advice given to her by a friend. Keep in touch with Nina, and hear more about this topic, by signing up for her mailing list here .
Episode #3
Once you’re lost in a scene, it really doesn’t matter where you are or how long you have. What matters is that the words are coming, you’re getting closer. On the third episode of Season Two, Nina talks about how she...
Episode #2
*The best writing happens when you forget that you're a person. *-Elana K. Arnold On the second episode of this season, Nina shares an experience of self-doubt. Later on, she and fellow author Elana K. Arnold answer a...
Episode #1
You can’t write a good novel without trusting yourself to write it. On the first episode of the second season, Nina talks about the pressures writers feel at all stages of their journey and offers advice on how to get...
Episode 8 -I share with you my plans for season 2 of Keeping a Notebook. Send your questions my way to keepinganotebook@ninalacour.com! -I take you through the first ten years of what I intend to be a lifelong career...
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