Sitemap - 2024 - The 7am Novelist
Use Your Words: A Virtual Workshop & A Vital Call to Action
Join Our Himalayan Writers Retreat!
Listener Roundup: Writing Through Fear, Making it Up, & Letting the Work Lead the Way
R.O. Kwon on Writing What Scares You
Jamie Quatro on Experimenting with Form
Ann Hood on Introducing a Late Point of View (& her famous +/- writing advice)
Crystal King on Writing about Problematic People (& Places Too)
Pagan Kennedy on Writing Nonfiction During Years of Disruption
Listeners' Roundup 5: Cultural Context, Secondary Characters, & When to Break (or Make) Rules
Femi Kayode on the Rules of Engagement When Writing a Sequel
Hesse Phillips on Challenges in Writing Queer History
Mark Cecil on Letting Your Secondary Characters Speak
Shi Naseer on Managing Multiple Timelines & Writing for a Western Audience
Getting Political: My Midwestern Roots Inform What I Value & How I'll Vote
Thérèse Soukar Chehade on Truth in Historical Fiction
Listener Roundup 4: Handling Your Mental Health, Research, Time, & the Omniscient POV
Jessica Anthony on Time as an Organizing Principle (Especially in a Short Novel)
Joseph Moldover on the Mental Health Challenges of Writing and Publication
Shalene Gupta on Conducting Deeply Personal Interviews
Henriette Lazaridis on Tackling the Omniscient Point of View
Jennine Capo Crucet on Voice That Originates in a Sense of Place
Colwill Brown on the Art of the Sentence (& Training Your Ear to Hear it)
Bryan VanDyke on Coping Mechanisms for the “Too Quiet” Writer (hint: Try an Unreliable Narrator)
Tessa Fontaine on Working with a Shy, Resistant Protagonist
Annie Weatherwax on Writing with Dyslexia & the Art of Seeing
Sarah Tomlinson on Writing Red Herrings in a Character-Driven Novel
Listener Roundup 2: Writer Humility, Accepting When It’s No Good, and Always Learning
Steve Almond on Avoiding Writer's Block by Chasing the Inner Life
Laura van den Berg on Straddling Genres and Multiple Novels-in-Progress
Kate Woodworth on Dealing with an Island's Worth of Points of View
Marjan Kamali on Handling the Passage of Time
Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Writing Politically Charged Topics
BONUS! Jean Duffy, Bev Boisseau Stohl, & Laura Beretsky on Making a Writing Group Work
Patricia Park on Navigating Taste (Food, Books, and Otherwise)
Kasey LeBlanc on Pacing Dual Narratives
Emma Copley Eisenberg on the Higher Truths of Dialogue
Listener Roundup: Narrative Distance, Borrowing from Archetypes, & Dealing with Crisis
Maria Hummel on Rewriting Existing Stories and Models
Desmond Hall on Managing Dramatic Irony While Writing Multiple Points of View
Dawn Tripp on Voice, Emotion, and Interiority
Adam White on Inserting Your DNA into Your Book's Point of View
Sara Shukla on Using Humor as a Survival Mechanism When Launching a Book During a Time of Loss
Updated Summer '24 Release Schedule
Bonus! Christine Byl: Listening, Patience, and the Necessity of Doing the Time
Finding Joy in the Writing Process with Suzanne Berne, Shalene Gupta, and Christine Murphy
Submitting Short Work & Understanding Subtext with Mark Cecil, Erica Ferencik, and Whitney Scharer
Writing From Real Life with Anjali Mitter Duva, Alex Ferraro, and Ethan Gilsdorf
Structuring Multiple POVS & Timelines (or maybe not?) with Mark Cecil and Jane Roper
Writing a Series and What "Close" Really Means for POV with Hank Phillippi Ryan and Allison Amend
Defining and Accessing Interiority with Dawn Tripp and Christopher Boucher
Revision: Breaking Down Your Book to Build it Back Up with Hesse Phillips and Sara Johnson Allen
Climaxes and Endings with Colwill Brown and Crystal King
Bonus! Process Over Product with Writer Cathy Elcik
The Time it Takes & What is Done? with Kasey LeBlanc, Shalene Gupta, and Sara Shukla.
Cutting and Querying Advice with Nancy Crochiere, Henriette Lazaridis, and Ethan Gilsdorf
Finding a Writing Community and Different Motivation Types with Jessica Bird and Henriette Lazaridis
When to Break Up with Your Book with Emily Ross and Virginia Pye
Jealousy and Exhaustion with Marjan Kamali, Liesl Swogger, and Alex Ferraro
Bonus! Michael Giddings: What to Do When Your Fictional World Gets Too Big for You
How to Find Writing Space with Sara Johnson Allen, Cara Wood, and Joanna Rakoff
Trusting Yourself and Your Writing with Hesse Phillips and Ron MacLean
The Great Research Rabbit Hole with Lauren Aguirre and Anjali Mitter Duva
How The Novel Complicates Character Development with Christine Murphy, Emily Ross, and Joanna Rakoff
Bonus! Aube Rey Lescure: The Existential Crisis of Launching Your Debut Novel
Starting Your Second Book with Christine Murphy, Kasey LeBlanc, and Aaron Hamburger
Dealing with Uncertainty with Timothy Deer and Hesse Phillips
Writer Boredom & the Dread of Finishing with Sara Shukla and Nancy Crochiere
Submission Anxiety & Character Development with Liesl Swogger and Kathleen Flynn