Christian Indie Writers' Podcast

Episode 110: NaNoWriMo "Eve Eve"

October 30, 2020 15:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MB

Send us a Text Message. Join the ladies as they discuss their plans for National Novel Writing Month, read their sprints and chat live with fans. n8baghxw

Episode #109: Writing Sprints #4: Beyond Sprinting

October 23, 2020 14:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MB

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Episode 108: Writing Sprints #3: Where to Sprint

October 16, 2020 15:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. This week, the ladies take a walk down memory lane remembering where they used to sprint before the pandemic. They also strategize for new and improved ways to get together with one another in this time of social distancing.

Episode #107: Writing Sprints #2 - How should You Sprint?

October 09, 2020 14:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MB

Send us a Text Message. This week as Jamie, Jen, and Tina discuss our favorite sprinting technique in detail. You’ll leave equipped with everything you need to know in order to harness the power of word sprints and finish that first draft! Link to sign up for the Christian Indie Writers Podcast Newsletter and receive an ARC copy of our new book, 30 Days of Writing Sprint Prompts: https://christianindiewriters.net/ Link to Writing shorts Newsletter to receive your free e-book "The Mom Ran ...

Episode 106: Writing Sprints #1 - Why Every Writer Should Sprint

October 03, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. Have you ever sat down with the intention of crafting a wonderful read, only to find yourself staring at a blinking cursor and a blank page for hours, wondering how or even where to begin? What if I told you the secret to banishing the blank page had nothing to do with plotting, or planning, or forming a plan of attack, but had absolutely everything to do with charging ahead - literally, just writing anything that comes to mind? “But wait!” You say, “I can’t just...

Episode 105: PREPTOBER: Preparing for National Novel Writing Month

September 25, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 44.8 MB

Send us a Text Message. It is more than the excitement of writing a novel in just thirty days that causes people to start thinking about this event an entire month in advance! No, dear Indie, the truth of the matter is far more consequential: you NEED a plan for NaNo! That is, of course, unless you are the hartiest of the die-hard pantsers and like to open your cursor at midnight on November first and look at a blank screen and a flashing cursor! Zoikes! Tune in this week and learn how to ...

Episode 104: Improving Your Writing with Framing

September 18, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MB

Send us a Text Message. When the topic of “framing your story” came up, all of us Co-hosts were not sure exactly what we should include in the episode. We all sort of scratched our heads and asked, “what do you mean?” Well, Indies, we’ve since wrapped our minds a bit more around the concept, and we’ve determined that what each writer could use, on occasion, is a bit of a “refresher” on what actually makes a story stand as, well, a story. So tune in and learn more about what it means to fra...

Episode 103: Exhortation: Encouragement and the Christian Writer

September 11, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. Have you ever felt like just giving up? You're not alone. That's why exhortation is so important. Join us today as we discuss Exhortation, how to encourage people, especially fellow Christian writers, encouragement tips, and why it is so important to be there for each other.

Episode 102: Pinterest for Writers - Growing your Pinterest Page

September 04, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. With all the social media platforms out there for writers to navigate, Pinterest is one that is largely overlooked. But should it be? Join Tina, Jamie, Jen and Rhonda as they discuss using Pinterest for writers and the possibilities that lie within the highly visual platform. They will also come up with their own goals for their author Pinterest accounts.

Episode 101: Social Media Etiquette

August 28, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. Do you have a bit of internet spinach in your teeth? Or a piece of bathroom tissue stuck to your shoe, in a virtual sense? In Episode 101, the ladies discuss social media etiquette for writers.

Episode 100: Celebrating 100 Episodes

August 21, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. Join Jamie, Tina, Rhonda and Jen as they look back on 100 episodes, discuss how they've grown and what they've learned, and share not only their own Drabbles, but also some fan Drabbles!

Episode 99: Indescribable, #2 - Improving Setting Descriptions in your writing

August 14, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 46 MB

Send us a Text Message. Last week, the ladies discussed the importance of description when writing your characters. In this episode, the conversation continues with setting descriptions. Is story setting important? Is it dependent on genre? How do you set a scene? All these questions and more will be discussed today.

Episode 98: Indescribable: Improving Physical Descriptions in your writing

August 07, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. The more we examined the issue of description, the more we realized that eyes are not the only physical feature we had difficulty describing with any sort of originality whatsoever. Thus, episode #98 was born. In it, we hope to broaden your (and our own!) horizons, so to speak, when it comes to providing physical descriptions of characters in (y)our novels.

Episode 97: Finding Your Social Media Stride

July 31, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. We are talking all things social media, including what the ladies plan to do to up the podcast's social media game

Episode 96: Plodding Through Plotting

July 24, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MB

Send us a Text Message. So, how does a plotter know when “enough plotting is, (FOR REAL!) ‘enough’?” Tune in this week as our resident plotters, Jen and Rhonda (as well as Tina, who’s a self-professed “plantser” - a plotter/pantser hybrid), try to navigate this tricky topic. For special fun, we’re bringing on Rhonda’s mom, Barb, the other half of the mother/daughter writing team “De De Bouman.” They’ll talk to us about their book, “Plot Your Novel with This Book." Purchase "Plot Your Nove...

Episode 95: 12 Things We Wish We Had Known as New Writers

July 17, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 46.5 MB

Send us a Text Message. Ready for some unsolicited advice? This week, the ladies going to tell you what they wish someone had told them at the beginning of their journeys toward publication, advice which would have saved them hours of agony and a puddles-worth of frustrated tears.

Episode 94: Why You Should Have a Book Launch Strategy

July 10, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MB

Send us a Text Message. Join the ladies as Jen tries to convince Jamie that a Book Launch strategy is right for her.

Episode 93: Art Imitates Life #4: Inspiration is Everywhere

June 26, 2020 15:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MB

Send us a Text Message. We writers know that our writing inspiration does not come in some predictable manner, such as a spring-fed stream which perpetually and inexorably flows from higher elevations to the lower. Inspiration is more like the wind, or perhaps like a wisp of vaporized sea, lingering - even faintly tastable on the tongue - yet impossible to directly grasp. This sounds like bad news, until you consider inspiration - like the vaporized droplets of the Atlantic that make that r...

Episode 92: Art Imitates Life #3: Characterization

June 19, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 46.2 MB

Send us a Text Message. Human behavior is a response to human experience, which is not universal. Today on the podcast, we will discuss how these acts of human behavior which make us stand up and take notice can help us develop characters that come alive for the reader.

Episode 91: Art Imitates Life Episode #2: Your Joys

June 12, 2020 15:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MB

Send us a Text Message. Last week on the podcast we covered Trauma in your writing. This week, we are going to talk about your joys - how they can be used to make your writing better. Join Tina, Jamie, Rhonda and Jen as they discuss life's joys and how to take that joy and carry it into the pages of your novel, where it can inspire others to look for joy in the everyday. Todays sprint prompt: Write a scene in which a character from your WIP is experiencing a joy you or a loved one has exper...

Episode 90: Art Imitates Life, Episode #1: Your Trauma

June 05, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. In this episode, the ladies discuss how traumas in your life influence your writing.

Episode 89: Readers of the Elusive ARC

May 29, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 46.5 MB

Send us a Text Message. BETAs?! ARCs?! Who can keep it all straight?! That’s why we at the Christian Indie Writer’s Podcast wanted to do this series on Launch and Review teams. We’ve already covered BETA readers, and now we’re going to sort the ALPHA’S from the BETA’s from the ARC’s. Won’t you join us?

Episode 88: Better Call A Beta

May 22, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 52.7 MB

Send us a Text Message. If you’ve been around the independent publishing world for any amount of time, you’ve heard writer’s speak (often, lovingly,) of their “Team.” Sometimes, they specifically mention a “beloved BETA reader,” or a treasured member of “my ARC team.” This week on the podcast, we discuss what a BETA reader is, why you want one, and where you can find one. In future episodes, we’ll cover what you can do with an ARC team of your very own!

Episode 87: Secrets of Side Character Success!

May 15, 2020 15:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MB

Send us a Text Message. Sometimes a babysitter is just a babysitter. But, sometimes, the babysitter shows up later in the book to save your heroine from a burning building. But, how do you know when to develop a side character or when to let them just show up? How does one accomplish the feat of Scribing Superlative Side Characters? The Secret is in this week’s episode.

Episode 86: Amazing Antagonists

May 08, 2020 15:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MB

Send us a Text Message. Lex Luther. Darth Vader. Loki. The Joker. Sauron. The Wicked Witch of the West. Cruella De Vil. Mr. Potter. Sure, little kids run around in Superman t-shirts and sleep in Batman pajamas, but where would our beloved superheroes be without their ferocious foes.? The antagonist. Just like your protagonist needs to fulfill a certain role in your novel, it is just important to write an antagonist that your readers love, er, well, at least love to hate as it is to write ...

Episode 85: Penning Perfect Protagonists

May 01, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 48.3 MB

Send us a Text Message. As a writer, you want your protagonists to be the best that they can be. But, what does that look like? What is the formula for penning the perfect protagonist? Does such a thing exist? Find out this week on the podcast.

Episode 84: Keeping it Real: Accuracy in Your Writing

April 24, 2020 15:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. Research. You either hate it or you love it. But how important is it? Join Tina, Rhonda, Jen and Jamie as they learn together this week the “do’s” and “don’ts” of research, and how important it is to get your facts straight, even when you are writing fiction.

Episode 83: Help! Tina has Writer's Block!

April 17, 2020 15:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MB

Send us a Text Message. You've seen it portrayed in movies. You've heard it bantered about in writing groups. You might have experienced it yourself. Writer's Block. Those two dreaded words that plague so many of us as some point in our writing journeys. Join Jamie, Rhonda and Jen as they harass, uh, er, I mean...as they discuss with Tina her current writing struggle.

Episode 82: Proceed with Caution: Protecting Your Rough Draft

April 10, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MB

Send us a Text Message. Even before you type the words, “The End,” you begin to feel it creep in - the almost irrepressible desire to share what you have created with the world. We at the podcast have been there. Each of us has either witnessed or committed ourselves some sort of faux pas with regard to sharing writing before it is really the right time to do so. Therefore, in this episode, we would like to ask you to “press pause,” and take a moment to thoughtfully consider the ramific...

Episode 81: I Love You, But You Must Die!

April 03, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 48 MB

Send us a Text Message. Having trouble hurting the characters in your work in progress? Join Rhonda, Tina, Jen and Jamie as they discuss the importance of causing pain to your characters.

Episode 80: Allegory? That's What I'm Tolkien About!

March 27, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 52.7 MB

Send us a Text Message. Greats like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis write it. Contemporary writers like Francine Rivers and Jonathan Cahn have as well. But what exactly is Allegory? And how in the world can emerging Christian Indies write it? join Jen, Jamie, Rhonda and Christina as they discuss allegory and answer questions from the LIVE chat.

Episode 79: Putting Your Work Out There

March 20, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. Join Rhonda, Jamie and Jen as they discuss ways to rip off the tape and get your writing some exposure. Links mentioned in the broadcast... https://duotrope.com/ (Use the free feature to begin. We do not suggest you plunk down cash for this as a new writer.) https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/ (a free solution) Follow us on Facebook:: https://www.facebook.com/ChristianIndieWriters/

Episode 78: Poco Loco - Staying Sane When Your Book is Driving You Crazy

March 13, 2020 14:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MB

Send us a Text Message. Tune in this week as the ladies discuss tips and tricks for staying sane when your Work In Progress (WIP) is driving you crazy!

Episode 77: Gesundheit - An Author's Guide to Staying Healthy

March 06, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MB

Send us a Text Message. This week on the podcast, the ladies discuss strategies for staying healthy during the cold and flu season, as well as any time of year.

Episode 76: The Devil is in the Details

February 28, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MB

Send us a Text Message. Do your descriptions seem drier than a crouton in the salad of the literary world? Join Jamie, Rhonda, Christina and Jen as they discuss similes and metaphors. What are they? How can they improve your writing? Join us as we go back to elementary school and explore one of the "basics" of good writing.

Episode 75: Genre Matters

February 21, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. On this episode of the Christian Indie Writers, Jamie, Jen, Rhonda and Tina discuss Genre: How to know yours, how important it is, where to discover it. And, as always, they will share a piece of fresh, unedited work.

Episode 74: Christian Romance

February 14, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MB

Send us a Text Message. On this Valentine's Day, the ladies discuss Christian Romance and how the world views this genre.

Episode 73: Spring Cleaning Your Desktop

February 07, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MB

Send us a Text Message. The ladies get real on today's episode. How messy is your desktop...your physical one and your virtual one. Join us as we discuss why you should clean up your virtual writing space as well as your physical space.

Episode 72: Genealogy for Storytelling

January 31, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. The ladies discuss how genealogy can be used for storytelling. Rhonda and Jen share a story about a historic plant that sparked new story ideas.

Episode 71: What are You Reading?

January 24, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. The ladies discuss their #TBR lists, as well as their current reads, in honor of #LibraryShelfieDay

Episode 70: What to Write Next

January 17, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. Jamie, Tina, Jen and Rhonda discuss how they choose what to write next. https://christianindiewriters.net/ https://www.facebook.com/ChristianIndieWriters/ https://twitter.com/ChristIndieWrit https://www.instagram.com/christianindiewriters/

Episode 69: I'm Going to Buy a Planner

January 10, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. Tina, Rhonda, Jen and Jamie discuss Jamie's latest blog post and thoughts on "Planner Season." Read Jamie's post at http://writingshorts.net/im-going-to-buy-planner/ https://christianindiewriters.net/ https://www.facebook.com/ChristianIndieWriters/ https://twitter.com/ChristIndieWrit https://www.instagram.com/christianindiewriters/

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