John and Craig reflect on the traits they’ve noticed in successful writing careers. Should you write everyday? Do you have to be good in a room? Is it more important to be original or flexible?
We also follow up on genres, typos and address a listener question on harassment.
In our bonus segment for premium members, we discuss our preferences in books from paper to bindings to jackets. No shock: we have opinions.
Links:
- Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana Book
- Heartbreaker and The Breaker Upperers
- Noah Evslin’s pitch for Guild Awards
- Ira Glass on Taste
- Women in Film helpline for sexual harassment and misconduct in the entertainment industry:(855)WIF-LINE (855-943-5463) or reach out online here
- Hometown Takeover
- Standard Ebooks
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- Outro by Brian Ramos (send us yours!)
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UPDATE 5-23-21 The transcript for this episode can be found here.