Podcast
Write Wrong
Hosted by Hamilton · EN
Talks about writing from the point of view of someone who's been doing it wrong for far too long. Mostly tips, anecdotes, and ways I've written wrongly, and how I am currently fixing those wrongly ways. New episode each month!
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Leave A Review: Genres
Apr 17, 202100:06:41Tap to summarizeGenres: Helpful? Sure. But are they doing their fair share? In today's Leave A Review, I review genres because, let's face it, if they're going to profile a book they might as well get it right.
Transcribe →Ep. 012 Queries: Or how do I get an agent to help me make money off my writing
Feb 24, 202100:23:57Tap to summarizeYes, there's a ton of tips on queries out there already. But this has jokes!
Transcribe →Leave A Review: Negative Reviewers
Feb 2, 202100:07:22Tap to summarizeWe all love reviews. They provide guidance, insight, and the opportunity to judge others anonymously while riding the high of ignoring our own failures in life. A new segment to tide you over until the next full episode of Write Wrong.
Transcribe →Ep. 011 Time Management: The thing we do to smother the creeping awareness that time is holding us at knifepoint
Oct 27, 202000:21:25Tap to summarizeNo matter how much we try, time always gets away from us. Here are some managing tips because managing is what we do when we're too weak to control something, but too capable to ignore it completely.
Transcribe →Ep. 010 Beginnings: Start with Waking Up!
Sep 1, 202000:20:42Tap to summarizeFellow writers, I’m going to begin today by going against the grain and give you advice that no one in their right mind would give you. Here are six ways the ‘establishment’ says not to start your novel, but I say maybe give it a try.
Transcribe →Ep. 009 Why MFA Programs Are a Faustian Nightmare
Aug 25, 202000:21:37Tap to summarizeOkay, the world is coronaviral and colleges are as close to figuring out if they should open their campuses as an Amish fourteen-year-old is to figuring out that nipples on women are more than just functional milk dots for boobies. But this episode is about education in general. Paying for it and getting it for free. I'm also a pessimist wrapped around a creamy optimistic center, and I believe that the future, although dark right now, will be a sunny day once again, when we can go to a baseball game, attend a concert, or have dinner with our parents and once again savor the ineffable pleasure of expressing our love by avoiding all talk about politics.
Transcribe →Ep. 008 Embracing Your Imposter Syndrome: Because it's true, you don't belong here. Now please leave.
Aug 18, 202000:24:26Tap to summarizeMy god, judgment comes in so many forms. Here's another one we suffer (even me, in this episode) and ways to jam a corn cob into your judge-hole.
Transcribe →Ep. 007 Authorship, or How to Avoid Writing Completely
Aug 11, 202000:24:11Tap to summarizeThey say if you want to become an author you need to think like a business person. I say, fine, but I don't have to like it. Here are few things I'm doing to try to be an author and not just a writer.
Transcribe →Ep. 006 How Crummy It Is to be a Writer
Aug 4, 202000:19:07Tap to summarizeBeing a writer can be amazing, but strangely, only after you've written. The rest of the time, it can just ruin your day. Here are few things I do to get through the tough times of struggling to get words down, and even if you do feel like hell, no need to feel guilty because it's all gonna be okay.
Transcribe →Ep. 005: Getting a beta reader: Because you do want strangers to eviscerate the novel you’ve spent over a year working on.
Jul 28, 202000:22:07Tap to summarizeWe need people to read our novels and that's even before we publish them. Here are a few ways I get mine, etiquette, and how to handle unhelpful feedback.
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