The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

Tips for Romance Writers, Blurred Genres & We Answer Your Questions

Jun 13, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
How to Fake It in Hollywood
01:38 • 3min
3
Are There Tropes Within the Romance Genre?
04:24 • 4min
4
Are You Writing From the Perspective of a Black Woman?
08:41 • 2min
5
Writing a Romance
11:04 • 3min
6
How to Read a Book Aloud
13:45 • 2min
7
Is It Awkward to Write Sex Scenes?
15:28 • 2min
8
Writing a Sex Scene
17:33 • 4min
9
How to Fake It on Hollywood - A GoFundMe for a Great Cause
21:30 • 2min
10
Island Time Review - Book Review
23:37 • 2min
11
The Island of Lush, Queensland
25:14 • 3min
12
Book Review - Island Time
27:58 • 2min
13
Romantic Comedy and Romance Are a Great Space to Be In
30:03 • 3min
14
Queer Romance Is So Popular Right Now
32:37 • 2min
15
Book Review - Is There a Prologue?
34:31 • 2min
16
How Do You Write a Book?
36:03 • 4min
17
How Do You Come Up With an Island or a Place?
40:25 • 2min
18
I Want to Have a Volcano on My Island
42:48 • 2min
19
How to Use World Building to Great Effects
44:52 • 2min
20
How to Introduce Characters in Order of Importance
46:54 • 3min
21
I Wouldn't Write a Book With Seven Women in Their Thirties
49:32 • 2min
22
The Pros and Cons of Working With Amazon Imprints
51:07 • 4min
23
Can I Copyright a Netflix Series?
55:08 • 3min
24
How to Get Right Into the Action of a Story in a Commercial Novel
57:40 • 2min
25
Insights Incident Ratcheting Up Tension
59:43 • 2min
26
You Don't Know What You Want From Your Agent Relationship
01:02:00 • 2min
27
What's Your First Loyalty to Your Characters?
01:04:21 • 2min
28
The Inciting Incident
01:06:09 • 2min
29
Own Voices
01:07:59 • 3min
30
Is the Hashtag Being Used to Police and Pressure Marginalized Authors?
01:11:00 • 2min
31
Pen Names and Building a Social Media Presence
01:12:54 • 2min
32
Writing Nonfiction and You're Gonna Pick a Pen Name?
01:14:40 • 2min
33
The Best Pen Names Come Out of a Conversation With an Agent and an Editor
01:16:13 • 2min
34
A No From Both or Both or All of Us
01:17:50 • 2min