John Helps You Write Better
John Helps You Write Better is your all-in-one better-than-college help and advice in writing and publishing your books. It's all about giving you the career as a successful author you've always dreamed of.
Episodes
In this week's Writers Chat, I want to help you organize your story. From the beginning. Yes really. All the way to the finished draft.
In today's episode, I want to kinda be an old man yelling at clouds and talk about a problem I see proliferating in writing.
In today's episode I want to talk to you about who is or isn't a real writer.
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about how you're challenging your characters and why you should if you're not already.
In today's episode I want to talk to you about that bad writer habit of not challenging your character while also giving them huge accomplishments.
In today's episode, I've got some writing exercises to help you organize your characters, your themes, and the depth of your story. It gets crunchy but it will help you.
In today's episode, I want you to quit rap battling yourself. It's not helping. And you deserve all the help and love and support you can get.
In today's episode I want to talk to you (while the landscapers fly a jet out my window) about managing your work's continuity.
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about how you find your footing in big complicated series and amid all the many moving interwoven parts.
In today's episode, can we talk about some teens?
In this week's stream, let's talk scenes. Here's how to build them, what goes into them, what they need, and several kinds of them.
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about rejection and what it means for you (and how that doesn't mean quitting)
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about self-doubt.
In today's episode, I want to ask you a question about what's next.
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about why your characters need goals and what that looks like for your story.
In this week's Writers Chat, we should talk about description. How to write it, what the point is, how to make it work.
In today's episode, I want to remind you why you shouldn't keep changing your art to be whatever's selling well at the moment.
In today's episode, I want to tell you about the choice you face every minute of every day about what you can and what you can't control.
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about how feelings hit the page.
In today's episode, I want to talk to you about your marketing. And your you-ness.
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