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Most writers are creative individuals filled with thousands of wonderful ideas.

This creativity obviously serves writers well when it comes to developing ideas for stories.

Unfortunately, that same creative spark that stimulates the initiation of a writing project is the same instinct that inspires writers to jump from one project to the next without ever finishing and publishing anything.

In this episode, we explore why writers are so prone to abandoning projects and what you can do to see your writing through to publication.

Listen to the episode or read the transcript at www.kevintjohns.com

Direct download: WC_148.mp3
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It's Remembrance Day here in Canada and Veteran's Day in America, so in today's episode of The Writing Coach podcast, we explore veteran authors and discuss how their experiences in war may have impacted their fiction. 

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Direct download: WC_147.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:38pm EDT

Many beginning writers want to write a long book.

There seems to be some sort of belief that long equals good.

Yet, as this episode of The Writing Coach podcast demonstrates, some of the greatest novels ever written are rather short.

In this episode, I cover more than a dozen of my favourite books, all of which are under 60K words long.

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Direct download: WC_146.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:55am EDT

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