Writing in Progress

Maggie has dozens of publishing credits to her name, is a Push Cart Nominee, has won Writer's Workout Writer's Games (twice), the YeahWrite Super Challenge, TL;DR's Wordherd, Iron Faerie Publishing's Betwixt Contest, and Writing Battle (twice!). She's also placed top 10 in both Writer's Playground and NYC Midnight.
She also happens to be one of the most encouraging human beings in the whole prompted-writing-competition community!
She joins us today to talk about her writing and promote her new short story collection... and oh by the way... she hasn't revealed the title of said collection... UNTIL NOW!
Listen to our interview to hear the announcement.
We start introducing Maggie around the 8 minute mark, and the interview begins at about 15 minutes. She chatted with us for nearly an hour and a half!
Topics include:
-writing competitions--world building on a tight word count
-self publishing, and the work that goes along with it
-imposter syndrome
-new years resolutions / goal setting
-compiling a collection
-how to approach prompts so that your story will stand out
-discovering your passion for writing later in life
-balancing a busy writing schedule
-how being a "yes" person and a voracious reader has led to her vast (and sometimes obscure) knowledge-base
-reworking/selling a piece after competition
If you'd like to learn more about Maggie, please visit her website, here: https://mmschreier.com/
If you'd like to connect with the podcast, we're currently checking email ([email protected]) and instagram (WritingInProgressPod) the most frequently.

Justin and Jon continue with their "How to" series regarding elements of a story. Next up: Plot. Listen in to hear how these two aspiring authors approach, strategies, and perfect their plots.

Justin and Jon are battling again! This episode was recorded live as they discovered their genres and prompts. (The character and word prompts they are sticking with are not shared, of course.)

Justin and Jon undertake another prompted live outline. The prompts this time:
Genre: Thriller
Character: A pilot
Action: Outrunning the Police
Location: A hospital
Object: A Pill

Randy Spears, an author who has self published 17 books which have combined for nearly $20,000 in sales, joins us on this episode of Writing in Progress.
Topics include:
Marketing Strategies
Self publishing vs Small Press
The logistics of publishing to Amazon
Designing Book Covers
How important are revisions?