Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#79: Your Writing Platform: Who Is Your Who?
When building a platform, we might be told to build our email list or increase our social media numbers, so we're tempted to do a lot of things maybe…
9 years, 6 months ago
#78: Your Best Material - The Practice of Remembering
This week I want to encourage you to dip into memories and memoir. Even though this veers from the more obvious platform series we’ve been in, it may…
9 years, 7 months ago
#77: When You Don't Know What to Say, Try Poetry
Last week on my blog I shared an excerpt from Mary Pipher’s book Writing to Change the World: I left it up to readers to decide what it meant for the…
9 years, 7 months ago
#76: Your Writing Platform - How to Confirm Your Niche
Your writing platform will have a lot of elements, but it starts with you, the writer, and what you’re about or what’s your thing, your topic, your n…
9 years, 7 months ago
#75: Your Writing Platform: What Fascinates, Captivates, and Energizes You?
If you’re writing nonfiction, you’re probably trying to zero in on a category or topic that you’d like to write about and be known for. You’re trying…
9 years, 8 months ago
#74: Your Writing Platform - The Need for Focus
Back in 2004, I was on the phone with my publisher and he told me I should start a blog. "It’s what authors are doing," he said. So, I tried to figur…
9 years, 8 months ago
#73: Your Writing Platform Needs a Home Base: An Author Website
Let’s say you send a query letter to a magazine or a book proposal to an agent. She reads it through and feels there’s potential—it looks like there’…
9 years, 8 months ago
#72: Don't Miss This Platform-Building Opportunity (like I did)
Last weekend I presented a breakout session at a writing conference. I arrived in time to register and had a snack before the opening session, then h…
9 years, 8 months ago
#71: Is the Wind Blowing You This Way and That? It's Time for a Plan.
The following is an excerpt from On Being a Writer: 12 Simple Habits for a Writing Life That Lasts, a book I coauthored with Charity Singleton Craig,…
9 years, 8 months ago
#70: What to Do When You're Unsure How to Begin
Once upon a time... In the beginning… Call me Ishmael... Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation... …
9 years, 9 months ago