Latest Craft of fiction Podcast Episodes
Truth & Beauty
Keeping a Notebook - September 23, 2020 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsPurchase Nina's new novel, Watch Over Me. Register for a morning of writing with Nina to benefit Diesel, A Bookstore. Enroll in Writing, Reading, Responding: The art of drafting and critiquing, in which Nina and Elana K. Arnold will discuss the making of Watch Over Me. (Remember to re...
Gaslight
Keeping a Notebook - September 22, 2020 15:28 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsYou can rent Gaslight here. (Highly recommended!) Purchase Nina's new novel, Watch Over Me. Register for a morning of writing with Nina to benefit Diesel, A Bookstore. Enroll in Writing, Reading, Responding: The art of drafting and critiquing, in which Nina and Elana K. Arnold will d...
A Ghost Story
Keeping a Notebook - September 16, 2020 17:04 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsWednesday, September 16th with Tiffany D. Jackson 5 p.m. PST/ 7 p.m. CST/ 8 p.m. EST, hosted by YA @ Books Inc. Learn more and register here! Thursday, September 17th with Stephanie Perkins 3 p.m. PST/5 p.m. CST/6 p.m. EST, hosted by Books & Books Learn more here! Subscribe to ...
Watch Over Me
Keeping a Notebook - September 15, 2020 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsJoin Nina in celebration of Watch Over Me's release! (If you order from a hosting bookstore, you'll receive a signed bookplate with your copy of Watch Over Me.) Tuesday, September 15th with Brandy Colbert 5 p.m. PST/7 p.m. CST/8 p.m. EST, hosted by Main St. Books Learn more and regis...
Writing in Place: A Mess
Keeping a Notebook - May 18, 2020 13:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsAnnouncement:The Slow Novel Lab is open for a special summer benefit session, with 50% of the profit going to Direct Relief! Nina examines messiness and her complicated feelings about it, both in herself and in others. She invites you to spend some time with a mess of your own--not to ...
Writing in Place: An Anchor
Keeping a Notebook - May 11, 2020 12:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsAnnouncement:The Slow Novel Lab is open for a special summer benefit session, with 50% of the profit going to Direct Relief! Nina examines the anchors in her life: her work, her desk, the mug she drinks her morning coffee from. She offers a writing exercise to ease you into exploring y...
Writing In Place: A Window
Keeping a Notebook - May 04, 2020 13:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsNina contemplates the windows in her new apartment, and what it's like to be on the inside when people outside pass by. She offers a two-part exercise for her listeners to be used first as a method of noticing and being in place, and then as an entryway to their fiction. If you’d like...
An Interview with Nina
Keeping a Notebook - April 29, 2020 20:46 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsAbout the Shelter in Place podcast, hosted by Laura Joyce Davis: When the news came down about the mandate to shelter in place, Bay Area writer Laura Joyce Davis decided to mark this moment in history by chronicling her daily experience of sheltering in place. Episodes are short (~10 mi...
Writing In Place: Wherever You Are
Keeping a Notebook - April 27, 2020 13:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsThis season opens in Nina's new home. She shares a story of disorientation, and finds her way back to writing. She invites listeners to write with her. To keep a notebook of these times. She offers a writing exercise as a way in. If you’d like to share your object, or what you wrote ...
Self-Promotion
Keeping a Notebook - February 06, 2020 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsA podcast on writing that explores the craft of fiction, answers listeners' questions, and provides strategies for a fulfilling writing practice and creative life, hosted by bestselling, award-winning novelist Nina LaCour.
The Middle
Keeping a Notebook - January 30, 2020 16:37 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsNew! Full transcripts of this season's episodes are now available at ninalacour.com/transcripts! Learn more about Nina's online class, The Slow Novel Lab! ninalacour.com/the-slow-novel-lab Today, Nina walks listeners through a part-brainstorming, part-outlining strategy for when they ...
Emotion on the Page
Keeping a Notebook - January 23, 2020 17:28 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsThe Slow Novel Lab is now open for enrollment! Join the conversation at The Slow Novel Lab Instagram! Subscribe to Letters from Nina for more writing tips, book news and special offers! Highlights: I want to experience the pleasures and sorrows of life through the page. It’s no sma...
The Past and the Present: Weaving Backstory into Your Story
Keeping a Notebook - January 16, 2020 13:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsJoin the conversation at The Slow Novel Lab Instagram! Subscribe to Letters from Nina for more writing tips, book news, and to hear when The Slow Novel Lab opens for enrollment! Highlights: -We need something to connect to. Details of setting. Histories. Hints or statements about how...
Five Strategies for Your 2020 Intentions
Keeping a Notebook - January 13, 2020 13:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsJoin the conversation at The Slow Novel Lab Instagram! Subscribe to Letters from Nina for more writing tips, book news, and to hear when The Slow Novel Lab opens for enrollment! Read Jocelyn K. Glei's blog post, "How to Feel Progress." Highlights: · Our goals have to be thin...
Announcement
Keeping a Notebook - July 02, 2019 16:58 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsNina talks about how life sometimes interrupts plans and shares some advice given to her by a friend. Keep in touch with Nina, and hear more about this topic, by signing up for her mailing list here.
Experimentation
Keeping a Notebook - June 17, 2019 05:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsOnce you’re lost in a scene, it really doesn’t matter where you are or how long you have. What matters is that the words are coming, you’re getting closer. On the third episode of Season Two, Nina talks about how she manages to meet her writing goals and is working to find solutions to...
Self-Doubt
Keeping a Notebook - June 03, 2019 03:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratings*The best writing happens when you forget that you're a person. *-Elana K. Arnold On the second episode of this season, Nina shares an experience of self-doubt. Later on, she and fellow author Elana K. Arnold answer a listener question about facing self-doubt during the process of wri...
Pressure
Keeping a Notebook - May 20, 2019 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsYou can’t write a good novel without trusting yourself to write it. On the first episode of the second season, Nina talks about the pressures writers feel at all stages of their journey and offers advice on how to get back to a place where inspiration sparks creation. She shares her e...
Ten Years, Five Books, Three Things I've Learned
Keeping a Notebook - February 25, 2019 12:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsEpisode 8 -I share with you my plans for season 2 of Keeping a Notebook. Send your questions my way to [email protected]! -I take you through the first ten years of what I intend to be a lifelong career. -I talk about the expectations I had when Hold Still was published...
The Possibility of Invention
Keeping a Notebook - December 10, 2018 12:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsNina answers a listener's question on writing a novel based on real events and explores ideas of truth and expansiveness in fiction. My website, Twitter, and Instagram
When You Act on a Dream: Part Two
Keeping a Notebook - December 03, 2018 12:01 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsIn Episode 5, Nina turns to three people who inspire her for the stories of how they started their own endeavors. In Part Two, we hear from a journalist/novelist/podcaster about her ten year journey to publishing her first novel and the podcast that helped her find her way. Sarah Enni ...
When You Act on a Dream: Part One
Keeping a Notebook - December 03, 2018 12:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsIn Episode 5, Nina turns to three people who inspire her for the stories of how they started their own endeavors. In Part One, we hear from a shop owner and a bread baker. Knots & Found - Instagram Humble Bakehouse - Website | Instagram My website, Twitter, and Instagram
How We See & What We Write
Keeping a Notebook - November 19, 2018 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsWe all have our own ways of seeing and understanding the world. This episode dives deep into the ways our perspectives shift as we grow up, and how embracing our unique ways of seeing can lead to our most authentic writing. "On Writing" by Raymond Carver My website, Twitter, and Insta...
For When You Feel Stuck In Your Writing
Keeping a Notebook - November 12, 2018 12:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsWe all have trouble getting started sometimes. This episode is for when you're stuck in a major way with your writing, or when you simply need a way back into your story. It's full of questions and strategies to help you start writing. My website, Twitter, and Instagram
All the Story You Need
Keeping a Notebook - November 05, 2018 12:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsIn which Nina answers a listener's question about how to weave plot into character-driven novels, and shares her own journey toward understanding that a quiet story can be all the story you need. MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults - Hamline University The Disenchantments - Nin...
I Want it Back
Keeping a Notebook - November 01, 2018 13:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsA look at early inspiration and a call to do our best work during difficult times. Books Mentioned Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion The White Album by Joan Didion The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Heroes and Saints and Other P...
Trailer
Keeping a Notebook - October 24, 2018 17:00 - 40 seconds ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsWelcome to Keeping a Notebook—a podcast on writing For the next eight weeks I’ll being taking a deep look at the creative process. Answering questions on craft issues like character and plot, and discussing what it means to be a writer in tumultuous times. I hope you’ll subscribe and ...
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