Writing Break

Season 10 is on hold because the rules for literary agents just changed, and not necessarily in the author's favor. This episode tells you exactly what questions to ask before you sign (or pay for) anything. ️...

Genres and subgenres are ever-evolving. This week, we trace one horror lineage from a crumbling 1764 castle all the way to today's femgore boom, dig into a detective fiction metamorphosis that spans three centuries and...

How much can you really accomplish in two minutes? This week on Writing Break , I share a simple exercise I call The Two-Minute Wait, which can help you better understand your relationship with time and improve the way...

Everyone in your life thinks your book would make a great movie, play, or video game. But adaptation isn't a copy-paste job because every medium solves storytelling problems differently. This week, we put one scene...

AI continues reshaping publishing, and writers cannot afford to ignore what's happening. In this week's news episode, we explore the growing legal, ethical, and professional questions surrounding AI, authorship...

Should you write what you love or write what sells? Is it possible to do both? In this episode of Writing Break , we explore how writers can stop chasing trends and, instead, find the overlap between personal passion...

Cross-genre fiction is thriving, but blending genres successfully requires more than adding a dragon to a murder mystery (sad, but true). If you're writing a cross-genre novel, planning to write one, or wondering...

What keeps a novel interesting after the premise stops being new? In this episode, I share the most important question to ask yourself while writing, no matter what genre you're writing. I also analyze why some novels...

This week’s episode is a Writing Break clip show packed with writing advice across multiple genres and storytelling forms. If you’ve missed part of the recent genre series or just want a concentrated episode full of...

Some novels should have been novellas. In this episode, we get into the latest publishing and book trend news, and we talk about why shorter forms can create stronger stories. If you’ve ever wondered whether your...

Short stories don’t give you less to do, just fewer places to hide. They are often seen as a stepping stone for writers, but they demand a level of precision many writers underestimate. In this episode, we look at what...

What happens when you break the rules of storytelling? In this episode, we explore how to experiment with intention. We look at nonlinear structure, fragmented narratives, and hybrid forms and why they only work when...

In this episode, we break down the publishing developments editors and agents are talking about right now and what they mean for working writers. 🛋️ Overthinking Couch Topics: Why audiobooks are now a primary format...

Comics, manga, and graphic novels combine image and word to tell stories in a way prose cannot. In this episode, we examine what actually changes when storytelling moves into panels, and why many writers struggle when...

Elements of Western novels are infiltrating other genres and modernizing the mythology of the Wild West. In this episode, we head out to the frontier to explore how classic Western storytelling transformed into the...