This season, we’re exploring community. One of the reasons we started this podcast was we wanted to talk about writing and day jobs with other writers, and didn’t find an existing space. So when we wanted to be part of a small critique group, it made sense to start our own. The resulting collective is one of things we’re most proud of.
Today’s episode is a discussion with some of last year’s collective members, about what works and what doesn’t, and we hope it gives you some tips and encouragement for starting your own. Let us know if you do!
In this episode, we talk to Amy Dressler, Erin Levens, Nicole Roth, and Stephanie Bucklin. Links to their websites are in the show notes so you can check them out. You can also find links to collective members Peter Amos and Sarah Hawkins, who weren’t able to join, but who are also doing some exciting writing things.
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Theme music is “It’s Time” by Scaricá Ricascá. Have a question you’d like us to try to answer, or a topic you’d love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here. Thanks for listening, and get to work!
In this episode:
- Episode 43 with Jane Friedman
- Episode 86 with Jennie Nash
- Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer
- Episode 84 with Jess Lahey and KJ Dell’Antonia
- Unsilencing the Writing Workshop by Beth Nguyen
- Sue Grafton’s process journals are discussed in Louise DeSalvo’s The Art of Slow Writing, which we also mention later in the episode.
- Episode 61 with Jessica Abel
- Nina LaCour’s Slow Novel Lab writing course