Story Kitchen

A Contract With Ourselves. In the last episode of the season, we talk about using a contract to keep writing.

Jane and Maureen discuss Space Opera; their favorites, and some of the pitfalls of writing it.

What are some tropes and are they okay in a story? How can they help your writing, and how can they hurt?

Fanfiction has long been a place where writers flex their skills and learn techniques! In this episode Maureen and Jane talk about what we love about fanfiction, what fanfiction can teach you about writing original fiction, and a few fanfiction habits that might not translate as well to original fiction. Mentioned in this episode: https://archiveofourown.org/ [https://archiveofourown.org/]

Making yourself write versus tools for writing, practice and technique.