Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers
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This week's episode moves beyond inspiring and into the territory of important, essential, and recommended listening—and reading. Guest Dr. Brian H. Williams, author of the debut memoir, The Bodies Keep Coming, joins us to talk about his experience as a trauma surgeon, and what being on the hospital frontlines can teach us about racial inequities in America. On the writing side of things, Brooke and Grant talk about how hard it can be for memoirists to truly open up, especially if you’re not used to sharing your feelings, or if there’s a perception that you don’t want the book to be too much “about you.” Dr. Williams touches upon all this, and shares how, as a self-professed man of few words, he pushed himself to be so self-revealing in his memoir.
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Finding and Building the Community That’s Right for You, with Alexa Bigwarfe
The Higher Truth of Fiction, featuring Jamila Minnicks
The Origin Story, featuring Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro
One Sentence Leads to a Second Sentence: Pushing Through the Muddy Middle of NaNoWriMo, featuring Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner
Get Inspired to Write from One of the Most Prolific Women Writers in History, featuring Allison Gilbert
Gothic Stories’ Long History of Drawing from Everyday Monsters, featuring Isabel Cañas
Playing with Narration in Memoir, with Maggie Smith
For the Love of Fanfiction, featuring Rainbow Rowell
The Art of Coauthoring, featuring Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché
The Best Way to Learn to Write a Novel? Write It!, featuring Kayvion Lewis
Dreaming and Writing, featuring Tzivia Gover
What Short Stories Do That Novels Can’t, featuring Ghassan Zeineddine
Unconventional Points of View, featuring Jimin Han
Agent Insights, featuring Lisa Leshne
The Art of Memoir, featuring Rebecca Carroll and Jeannine Ouellette
Storytelling from Legacy Authors, featuring Gish Jen and Peggy Orenstein
The Business of Publishing, featuring Rachael Herron and Joe Biel
High-Stakes Fiction, featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Ana Reyes
Parent-Adult Child Dynamics for Writers, featuring Gail Warner (Brooke’s mom)
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