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29May

18.22: On Mentorship: Sending the Elevator Back Down

How can we make publishing more inclusive? What role does mentorship play? And how can you reframe competition as colla

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22May

18.21: The Empathy Gap: How to Understand What Your Publisher is Telling You

The relationship between a writer and a publisher is… one that isn’t talked about enough. So we made an episode abo

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14May

18.20: So You Want To Work In Publishing?

Have you ever thought of being a publisher, but don’t know if it’s the right choice for you? In this episod

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07May

18.19: What is Publishing For, Anyway?

So, what is publishing for, anyway? The question may seem glib, but DongWong Song raised it in their newsl

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30Apr

18.18: Launching an Author Newsletter

Through all the tumultuous evolution of various social media platforms one thing has remained stable: email. In this epi

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23Apr

18.17: Build Your Author Brand, 2023 Edition

Dolly Parton once said “figure out who you are, and then do it on purpose.” One of DongWon Song’s news

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16Apr

18.16: Deep Dive: Publishing is Hard, by DongWon Song

Publishing is hard. Also, Publishing is Hard is a newsletter from DongWon Song. They launched it in 2019 as an outle

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09Apr

18.15: Building a Mystery, Now With More Tools

Back in February, with Episode 18.8, we began exploring the process of writing a mystery story. That episode led us into

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02Apr

18.14: Heavy Lifting with Microtension

Let’s take all our tension tools and apply them in tiny ways. A big application of tension might be an argument be

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26Mar

18.13: Finding the Core Conflict

In our ongoing exploration of tension, the time has come to examine conflict. It can be shaped and delivered in numerous

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