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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

Coco Mellors' Incredible Insights on Writing

Aug 29, 2024
01:12:00

In today's Books with Hooks, we’re throwing it back to an early backlist segment.

After which Bianca interviews bestselling author, Coco Mellors, to discuss her latest novel, Blue Sisters.

They discuss writing on the line level while using metaphor and similes to describe things in ways that no one else has expressed them before; the creation of Coco's extremely compelling prologue and how she approached writing it; writing characters who have agency and how their agency affects the plot; balancing showing vs telling, and how to make the telling feel like showing; how writing can be an act of blind faith; writing multi POV novels; the research process; and writing what you know.

Note: Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra are literary agents at P.S. Literary Agency, but their work on this podcast is not affiliated with the agency, and the views expressed by Carly and CeCe on this podcast are solely that of them as podcast co-hosts and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, policies, or position of P.S. Literary Agency.

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You can find out more information about Coco on her website at https://www.cocomellors.com/

She's also on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/cocomellors

For more information about the All About Fantasy virtual retreat, go to:

https://www.biancamarais.com/all-about-fantasy.html

 Carly's course for writers, The Author's Publishing Playbook, is available at carlywatters.com/course. If you haven't grabbed it yet, podcast listeners can use discount code POD15



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