Royalty Free - A Writing Podcast

Writer Mythos Historia - Deep Diving into Themes You Write Subconsciously

On this week's episode of Royalty Free, we deep dive into a concept Ellie learned called Writers Mythos. Every writer draws upon personal experience, themes, and subconscious childhood informative years as to what, and how, we write. She asks the hard questions and we have to identify what is deep inside us as to what has informed our writing over the years, and we learn a few things about ourselves along the way. Join us as we discuss how the writer's mythos can be used to better your writing, and how it can be abused if it isn't reined in. And if you would like to drop us an email, you can reach us at royaltyfreewritingpodcast@gmail.com [royaltyfreewritingpodcast@gmail.com] we'd love to answer your questions in the next episode!

Character Death Mamba - Why You Must Kill Characters and How Not to do it Poorly

In this week's episode, we will be discussing character deaths. We talk about why you would want to kill a character, how to do it right, and also, how not to kill a character that will leave your readers angry, confused, or betrayed by your work. Meaningful deaths vs. meaningless deaths, and how to use both because both are useful techniques, you just need to know when to use them. Also, the Goblin here is giving you the reassurance it's okay to kill the dog or the horse. Just make it mean something to the plot if you do. Plus, here are the books we think handled the topic of death well. Literature recs: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Moon Called by Patricia Briggs Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles And whatever horse series Kate read that we still don't know the name of.

Live! It's Authorpalooza!

In this week's episode, we are recording at Authorpalooza in front of a live audience! So exciting. Authorpalooza is an event our public library hosts with local authors giving readers and local writers a chance to interact and talk with each other. Today we will be discussing how identify your unique writing ability and harness it to create, then we take questions from the audience and cover everything from marketing, audience expectations, and branding. We had a blast at Authorpalooza, and our live audience was a dream to speak in front of. Thank you to everyone at the event, and remember, keep writing!

Writers Block Avalanche - Top Tips to Overcome Writers Block

The dreaded writers block. According to Wikipedia it is a nonmedical condition, primarily associated with writing. But it can be so much more than that. The three of us decide to tackle all our top tips and tricks in overcoming writers block, as well as having emotional epiphanies regarding why writers block can be a chronic problem as well.

Character Creation Confabulation - How to Develop Characters with Staying Power

On this week's episode, we discuss how each of us create characters. We explain what kind of writers we are and how that translates to the different ways each of us create compelling characters. Do we stay 100% on topic? Eh, debatable. But, we do delve into how our unique needs as Discovery, Architect, and Gardener writers who each have varying needs to craft characters from scratch and through hard rewrites, instinct, and fine-tuning, and not all in the same order. Take a peek into how you too can write characters you resonate with and will bring readers back for more. Does one type of writer resonate with you? Let us know! (And thus shall the the Goblin Army arise! Don't tell the Architects...)