Podcast: Mid-April Catch Up

It’s mid-April and Christy and I are checking in on where we each stand with our novel projects. What starts as a casual progress report turns into a pretty honest conversation about the intersection of project management and creative anxiety. Turns out you can apply all the organizational frameworks you want, but at the end of the day you still have to sit down and write the thing — and make sure it has a soul.

Topics Covered

• Novel progress updates from both of us
• Using synopses to map out narrative arc
• Applying project management techniques to novel writing (yes, really)
• Channeling anxiety into productive writing energy
• Making sure the series finale has genuine emotional weight

Shout Outs

• Diana Ma and Amanda Kost — always in our corner
• Todd Lubsen — for the continued support
• Titus Grupp — getting a well-deserved mention
• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein — still relevant, still brilliant
• Isaac Asimov — because you can’t talk about series finales without him
• Stephen King (Misery) — for reasons that will make sense when you listen
• Stephen Graham Jones — doing incredible things in genre fiction
• Cormac McCarthy — as one does

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