Exploring Creativity and Finding Inspiration

This Week In Writing, Justin celebrates the first season finale with a panel discussion about books! We discuss the best books of the year and books making the best gifts this holiday season. The amazing panel includes: Faith Adiele, author of Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun and a writer of A World of Calm on HBO MAX. Eric Smith, author of Don't Read the Comments and literary agent at P.S. Literary Agency. Gretchen Hardin, librarian at the Bee Cave Public Library and creator of the bookstagram, Eating Reading. All of books mentioned in the episode are available in our expanded show notes at The Writing Cooperative.

This Week In Writing, Justin discusses writing about political issues, namely equality, with a panel from Our Human Family. The panel includes OHF founder and editorial director, Clay Rivers, and OHF editor for special projects, Sherry Kappel. Check out OHF's book, Fieldnotes on Allyship: Achieving Equality Together.

This Week In Writing, Justin talks with Adam Leeb who co-founded Astrohaus, makers of the distraction-free writing device, Freewrite. The two discuss writing without distractions, product launches in a pandemic, and developing products for writers. 

This Week In Writing, Justin talks with Ron Dawson about how his book went from serial installments on Medium to traditional publisher. Plus, we get into NaNoWriMo tips to get you ready for this year's challenge. Follow Ron on Medium, @RonDawson, check out Ron's book, Dungeons 'n' Durags (don't miss the soundtrack page), and his content marketing company, Blade Ronner Media. 

This Week In Writing, Justin talks to Benjamin Sledge and Kayt Molina about making money writing online. What's going on with the Medium Partner Program and what does it mean to diversify your writing? Find out with this week's discussion.  This week's panel: Visit Benjamin's website and follow him on Medium. Follow Kayt on Medium and check out her YouTube channel, It Came From a Box.

This Week In Writing, Justin talks to the panel about self-publishing. This week's panel includes Anangsha Alammyan and Sarah Hamilton (website, books, instagram).

This Week In Writing, Justin discusses how we improve as writers.  Discussion Panel: Kathleen (Kat) O'Keefe-Kanavos: Website Mark Ellis: Website, YouTube Nita Sweeney: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube William (Billy) Fraiser: Website, Medium, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube References: Natalie Goldberg: Writing Down the Bones Cheryl Strayed: Wild Nicolas Cole: The Art and Business of Online Writing (featured on Episode 12 of This Week In Writing) Simon Sinek: Start With Why (book) and TED Talk

This Week In Writing, Justin discusses how we explore creativity and find inspiration as writers. Discussion Panel:  Rowena Roberts: Website, Instagram, and Facebook Michael Shook: Medium References: Phillip Pulman's His Dark Materials trilogy Brenda Ueland: If You Want To Write TED: Do Schools Kill Creativity by Sir Ken Robinson

This Week In Writing, Justin talks to Nicolas Cole. Cole is a top writers on Quora and Medium. He leveraged both to start an online writing business helping executives tell their corporate stories. Cole just published a book, The Art and Business of Online Writing, where he shares his story and process so you can learn from his journey. Show links:  Buy The Art and Business of Online Writing on Amazon. Visit Cole's website or follow him on Quora, Medium, Twitter, Instagram, and Substack. Subscribe to Justin's Substack. Visit The Writing Cooperative.

This Week In Writing, Justin is joined by Bobby Powers, author of our wildly popular ProTips series. How does Bobby find time to read 70 books a year and watch every MasterClass on writing? Plus, what is his favorite ProTip of all time? Find out in today's episode. Episode Links Neil Gailman's Top 13 Writing Tips The Art of Writing Fiction by John Gardner ProTips by Bobby Powers Check out Bobby's website and follow him on Medium.