Yeah, we know. We thought we were done with the hiccups in the schedule, but this thing called February happened. Things didn’t get better in March. And April was not shaping up to be any kind of improvement. Sure, we had content in the hopper, we had stuff we wanted to talk about, and we wanted to talk to you all. Problem is, we had a full plate of ADULTING to cope with, and that is what this comeback episode of The Shared Desk is all about — when Life refuses to cut you a break.
We have some thoughts on what to do about it.
00:00 — Introduction
Remember us?
So that’s why Tee is so interesting to people…
Are you feeling defeatist? BETTER NOT!
It’s been some time, not that we are light on content…
01:04 — Episode #88: Writing in the Midst of Bad News, Bad Luck, and Grief
We’ve got some really cool stuff in the backlog…
Chatting with K.T. Bryski about the 2018 Smoky Writers
Nope. Life is still not done with Tee as he returns to his Day Job to discover…
How do you get back on your feet?
Hold up, Fam —Tee’s good.
My Twitch streams have been helping him cope. It’s like the early days of podcasting, but with video games.
Tee kept the Day Job situation close to the vest for a reason.
The new Day Job coming has got Tee grooving to this song…
How having the new job already lined up helped Tee through his Dad’s Memorial.
There may be good intentions behind “Get back on the horse…” but sometimes, you need to keep your pie-hole shut. Tee knows this. Sadly. Concerning his friend, Kim Headlee.
Writers react to death, grief, and stress differently. That is a truth.
To the people who think Tee and Pip should be full time in writing by now…
Interviewing for Day Jobs — especially ones that are just for show — are exhausting.
There are different ways to cope with death, grief, and stress. It’s okay to ask for help.
What writers need to do: set a date for a return.
Escapes are good. Escapes are essential.
Tee’s Dad may never appear in a novel of his, but there will be influences and reflections a-plenty.
The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant will always be that story for his father.
Too bad his dad liked the first one more.
Allow yourself to grieve.
And remember, you are not alone in the world. You are not.
Tee shares his breaking point.
Cheesy as it may sound, there is something good about hitting rock bottom.
Through all this, Pip discovers a super power.
Embrace your Tribe.
When you are ready, turn your grief, your darkness, your pain, into characters that resonate with readers. When you are ready.
29:02 — Writers Off the Clock
Holy shit, this soundtrack is AWESOME!!!
Spoilers, Will Robinson! We are going to riff a bit about…
To really understand this reboot, you have to travel back in time to the original Lost in Space… …which doesn’t quite age well. At all. Let’s discuss.
Decades later, Hollywood decided to take Lost in Space into a darker corner… …and no, things didn’t really fall apart with Matt LeBlanc. It started with the script.
“But early Doctor Who is pretty chintzy,” you say? About that…
GENERAL FANDOM:Lost in Space is a sacred cow. No need to remake it, reboot it, or retool it for a modern audience. NETFLIX: Hold my beer.
What Tee and Pip did not like about Lost in Space…
What did Tee and Pip like about Netflix’s Lost in Space? Where do we begin?
Acting — on point and incredible
Women were taking the lead without emasculating the men,
The management of huge cast — everyone had their moment!
Everyone felt real.
Let’s talk about Parker Posey, Dr. Smith, and how she polished this turd-of-a-character and redefines this science fiction villain.
The creative crew of this new Lost in Space slip in a lot of nods to both the original television and film.
Opinions on the Robot
Already planning a re-watch.
Kid-Friendly…but there are some tense moments…
54:19 — The Wrap-Up
Tee and Pip had a lot to share with the class.
What will Tee do on his off-week before the new day job?
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Following a super-sized Shared Desk, Pip and Tee fly on their own in this fast-paced, jammed-packed episode that we put together based on some current events happening both online and close to home. First, your hosts comment on the 800-pound gorilla of social media, Facebook. Changes have taken place and authors are freaking out. But should day? Do you have options? Well, of course you do; and after breaking down the Facebook situation, Tee and Pip talk about the good in diversifying your social media platforms.
The next current event is a rant. Tee lets loose on shenanigans happening in his hometown, and these shenanigans involve a con-artist The Shared Desk is more-than-familiar with.
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Pip is also working on a book that she cannot seem to recall what the hell she’s calling it.
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This is a super-sized episode featuring the Geek Wolfpack Podcast crew in studio and recording a 2018 episode for their own feed, so have fun as two podcasts join forces to kick off 2018 with style!
00:00 — Introduction
Wait a minute…this isn’t your podcast!
We have a lot of people in studio!
Big Love to Doctor Who’s Christmas Special!
And here’s where the show falls off the rails.
Hey, let’s start a rumor…
You need to watch the Christmas Special with perhaps the most epic “Previously on…” introduction.
Nice end to 2017!
Hold back your enthusiasm on being here!
Best way to start 2018 — killing Christmas trees!
What is Battlefield: Earth doing on the Hallmark Channel?
07:00 — Episode #86: Looking Ahead to 2018
Looking back to Christmas…
Brandon refuses to let up on the snark for the New Year.
Teenagers love socks.
Serena’s rocking electronics while Brandon has got hockey skates for the ice!
The Canadian shakes her head at the oddities of Americans.
Penguin Trivia
Katie reflects on her Canadian Christmas
Butt Jokes
What are we planning for 2018?
Serena and Brandon, the youngsters, are making plans…
Serena now decides to clam up.
Brandon can control celebrity deaths? What?!
Serena is planning to study “creative stuff.“
TALKING SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD.
Holy cow, we’re talking a dark turn!
Brandon looks into Colgan, as well, for their Music Tech program.
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Here we come, 2018!
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Did you hear? We have a new book on the shelves! (The digital ones anyway.) With Operation: Endgame out and waiting for you to read, The Shared Desk is looking back on the ministry of Peculiar Occurrences and talks about everything a writer thinks, feels, and fears when wrapping up a series and dropping the curtain on familiar grounds.
And really, are they done with the Ministry? Well……
00:00 — Introduction
Whew! It’s been a week…
If you want to relax, Dunkirk is NOT the movie to help you with that.
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See you in 2018!
54:15 — The Last Word
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Closing in on the end of the Dog Days of Podcasting, Tee covers a simple mantra for writers everywhere: Just write. You love to write in your office, in your favorite slippers, during a rainy day with a cup of coffee. That’s cool and all, but there are those times where the setting won’t be picture perfect. Too bad. Write.
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Recorded this morning and posted this evening, Tee settles in to talk about something else but follows the rabbit hole Arkle opens up about the “Mary Sue” complex that haunts fiction. The question is, should it? Can developing characters from your own experiences, hopes, and dreams, work in fiction?
It is a tricky tightrope to walk — very tricky — but it’s possible.
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For today’s Dog Days of Podcasting entry, Tee returns to the subject of raising the stakes; but instead of doing so from the character’s P.O.V. we think bigger, we look bigger. How safe is the world or the environment they are in? The real world is a dangerous place. How dangerous is yours?
He also ties this episode back to the bad book he was reading. He finished it. And Tee talks about it.
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With all these podcasts coming through this feed (and yes, welcome to the Dog Days of Podcasting, ya’ll!), would you believe we lost track of when we needed to post a Shared Desk?
My bad.
With inspiration from Germany, Tee and Pip are talking about writing in the zone, those wonderful times when the ideas and words show no signs of stopping. How do you manage — you know — the outside world? Well, here are a few tips for you to consider.
Announcements coming up concerning Operation: Endgame
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You want to know the best way to really make a book dull? Let people know that “everything is going to be okay” because the author may be worried that audiences can’t handle the tension. No kidding. Authors do this. And today on the Dog Days of Podcasting, Tee cites his current read and his determination in getting through it to the end, despite the author’s insistence that “It’ll be okay…” again and again. Tee suggests to torture your audience a bit. Raise the stakes. Make that book of yours a page-turner.
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Thanks for the run in Destiny last night, P.C. Haring and Indiana Jim! That was good fun!
False start this morning, but the Dog Days of Podcasting rolls on with Tee breaking down the “Big Three” of the Justice League, and how characters should not be super-human and all-knowing. That way lies lazy storytelling and zero tension.
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Tee’s on the road, but the Dog Days of Podcasting continues as he looks back on yesterday’s show. Tee explores the #WriterGoals hashtag he’s been kicking around since an evening at Wolf Trap with Neil Gaiman.
So what are your #WriterGoals?
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Leave it to the Dog Days of Podcasting to remind Tee that TODAY he and Pip were supposed to put out a new episode of The Shared Desk.
Ooops.
Staying organized is hard, but Tee’s got a few tricks that help him out with projects, timelines, and appointments. What are you favorite organization methods? Share them with us here!
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Fresh from the workout, The Dog Days of Podcasting takes you on a nostalgic trip, or at least on a bumpy ride, to the 80’s. Okay, the 80’s that Tee remembers…and he addresses the dangers of too much nostalgia and too much meta. Remember — it’s your story people want to hear.
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Today’s Dog Days of Podcasting may seem a little rough, but there’s a light Tee’s offering. He writes what he writes because of stuff like this.
Thanks for listening.
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That is just messed up. Not to mention hitting very close to home.
And on the Dog Days of Podcasting Tee has got some heavy writing advice for you this morning: “Don’t listen to what I have to say.”
Now listen to the podcast, and rate it. (See what Tee did there…)
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The Dog Days of Podcasting has its first crossover with Tee’s other passion project, Happy Hour from the Tower. An interview with Twitch streamer 3vil_Aura has Tee thinking about guy instincts and how important they are to follow.
Listen close that feeling, and have a great weekend!
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WE’VE BROKEN INTO DOUBLE DIGITS! And thank you, everyone, for the feedback through voicemail, Twitter, and Facebook, over the Dog Days of Podcasting. Tee goes long on this episode (hey, it took him until the TENTH episode to shatter the 15-minute mark, so that is saying something…) but it was a real hot button for him: Rejection. It’s a matter-of-fact that in life—not just the arts, but in real friggin’ life, rejection is going to come into play. How do you cope? Does it get any easier? Why bother?
Tee doubles down on a fistful of observations and opinions, and offers up a perspective on the big R.
Hold on to something…
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Two worlds collide today on the Dog Days of Podcasting as Tee looks back on his theatre days and finds a lesson that also applies to the writer’s craft.
There’s a lot you can learn about the story you’re telling when you listen.
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It may seem a little off that for this installment of the Dog Days of Podcasting, Tee is talking about cats. In particular, Benedick, his unexpected rescue cat…
…but it can be unexpected how furry, four-legged companions have a lot to teach us about artistic passions.
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I’m working on the routine of the elliptical again for the Dog Days of Podcasting and catching up on a Netflix cue. Back on track with Sens8 which is a tremendous show on all fronts. It also reminds Tee how important connection is in writing. A photo of Lauren and Verena (Facebook Link) also tugged at his own connection with people far off but not that far away in his life.
It all comes back in the writing.
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He make it six days into the Dog Days of Podcasting before his better half hopped on mic with him.
Today, Tee and Pip talk about the importance of writing experiences. Sure, word count matters, but so is living life to the fullest. Lauren’s adventures reminded us of this.
There’s also talk about dragon eggs and comparing them to this:
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Tee will argue that this is the sweatiest 2017 Dog Days of Podcasting challenge ever. At least, for Tee.
That being said, Tee’s talking about negativity which includes chatter about Destiny, the ridiculousness of remaking Death Wish, the value of positive people in an author’s life, and love for guys named Chuck.
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Has the 2017 Dog Days of Podcasting challenge become a routine yet? Tee hopes so. See, a routine for a writer is a good thing. Routines help you get things done, and there’s real value in having routines for the day. Does this mean that routines go missed? Well, yeah, that happens. Life is not set in its patterns, and routines are sometimes disrupted. This is why they are so valuable to you as a writer.
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For this next installment of the 2017 Dog Days of Podcasting challenge, Tee looks at the challenge of exploring a world that you are familiar with. It’s a world you as the one who created it should know inside and out and intimately, but can you still discover something new within it, surprising yourself as well as your readers?
That’s the rush you feel when facing a new challenge.
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Welcome to the 2017 Dog Days of Podcasting challenge. The Shared Desk is hosting this bold venture, and Tee will explain more about it in this week’s show. For now, just expect something completely different appearing in your feed this month alongside regular episodes of the writerly podcast you know from this site.
This episode looks at Writer’s Rage. At least that’s what Tee is calling it.
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We’ve been busy lately with wrapping up one project and starting a brand new one. However, we are never too busy to learn new things, and Pip is doing that presently with Nick Stephenson and his course, How to Find Your First 10,000 Readers. This may sound like we’re drinking the marketing guru’s Kool-Aid (mmmmm…fruity) but we are asking hard questions. Nick’s got answers.
19-20 August, Mechanicsburg Mystery Weekend in Mechanicsburg, PA (Lots to do during this Mystery conference…)
1-4 September, Escape Velocity in Washington, D.C. (A weekend of hardcore geekery with Nick Kelly!)
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Ah, the glamorous life of writers…
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Tee and Pip invite the newest member of the the Smoky Writers Mafia to the show after she — that’s special guest M.K. Backstrom, if you’re curious — suggested we all get on mic and talk about Wonder Woman…
…and that’s just what we did. And you’ll find out VERY QUICKLY why we fell in love with this Power Blogger.
00:00 — Episode #76: Wonder Woman from a Writerly Perspective (with Mary Katherine “M.K.” Backstrom)
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If you have not seen the seasonSERIES finale of Penny Dreadful, turn back now.
As fond the Victorian Gothic (with just a dash of steampunk) series is at quoting literature, let us give a quick quote of our own:
Do you hear, let them be well used; for
they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the
time: after your death you were better have a bad
epitaph than their ill report while you live.
While Tee and Pip would never go on record about their thoughts on another writer’s work, they let loose with the ranting as they feel betrayed both as fans and as writers. If you have been wanting a rant from Tee, here it comes NOW WITH 100% MORE KIWI!!!
00:00 — Introduction
Pip is working very hard to make everything interesting, even the show numbers…
We are nailing the posting schedule for 2016! How about that?
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In our previous episode of The Shared Desk, Pip, Tee, Matt, and PJ all looked ahead to a week at the Smoky Writers’ Retreat. Now we jump ahead to the end of the week, and this time we are joined by KT Bryski. Cracking over an hour of word count goals, reflections on the fun, and serious talk about moonshine, The Shared Desk presents the Post-Retreat podcast.
03:54 — The Post-Retreat Podcast (with Piper, Matt, and KT!)
Only one hit of the shine, and Tee’s off the rails already.
What we accomplished at the Retreat…
Pip finishes The Silver Pharaoh, begins The Iron Lily, and continues into the Broken Galaxy; and she hit a Lowell! Just over 30,000 words accomplished.
K.T. Bryski was a short story machine. BE AFRAID OF THE AWESOME!
Tee finally wrote Little Red Flying Hood, got handouts sorted for an upcoming RT workshop, and kicked off Blackstar Rising. Over 30,000 words in the week.
And now, Matthew J Drake, our accidental author…landing in over 20,000 words in a week!
A quick tangent on the Apple Pie Moonshine…and then, back to Matt….
Matt’s ascension into a full-fledged writer’s life.
Just avoid the dreaded note from KT Bryski, editor…
KT Bryski does NOT care for the new drop-in.
The story behind Piper’s new drop-in. (We love you, Foo!)
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And we end on a super-classy note…
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After a month of writing, blogging, event planning, and deering-do, Tee and Pip return to the mics (finally!) for a brand new Shared Desk…but wait, didn’t we talk about Amazon last time? Well, yeah, we did, and once again we return to the latest “sweet deal” for you. It’s a look at Kindle Unlimited, and a look back to Tee’s Past all caught on video in this latest podcast.
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After two days of recording and a plethora of technical glitches, we are back for another episodes with our new intern and return Canuck, ForeWord-nominated author, Katie Bryski! Join us as Katie, fresh from Stonecoast, come in-studio to talk about this amazing experience that she has embarked upon…
00:00 — Introduction
We are on a roll!!!
G’day, eh? We have a guest in the studio again! Throw on the back bacon — it’s Katie Bryski!
Things you shouldn’t do after the Smoky Writers: Have your liver tested.
Pip bitches about the drop-in’s. Again. (And remember this…for later on in the show…)
Since the Smoky Writers events, what have Tee & Pip been up to?
Tee’s still job hunting, still working on Wolf in the Fold, and also working on something for Valentine’s Day.
What Katie has been up to since Stonecoast?
She’s our intern for February!
Katie is still working on a book that is formally known as formerly known as Styx.
In Season Three of Tales from the Archives, things get very Canadian!
14:48 — All about Stonecoast (with Katie Bryski)
The first challenge of Stonecoast: Get to the right Portland!
What exactly is Stonecoast?
Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Low-Residency (so you can do this from home…)
Residency is in Portland, ME
Tee’s mic problems and Pip’s odd need for editing…eh, just go with it!
Working with Mentors (who are working authors)
This isn’t NaNoWriMo or a writers’ retreat, folks. This is graduate school. For writers.
And there is Tee, just being far too ‘Murican.
From #MicFAIL to #DropInFAIL
Pip asks who would Tee want to have as his Writing Mentor…and Pip makes an uber-#SteampunkFAIL.
But Katie is a published author already…so why does Katie need a Masters Degree in Writing?
Katie looks at the goals of Stonecoast she’s looking to accomplish through this program.
Tee and Pip are a touch green with envy over Katie’s journey with Stonecoast.
For someone who hates drop-in’s, Pip’s asking a lot from Tee in this episode.
Does Stonecoast have business angles covered?
Stonecoast offers another aspect of the writers’ community
33:44 — Seriously?! Seriously.
Another #DropInFAIL but we’ll get this…
It’s kind of important before you go into a blog tour to know what to do when you’re on a blog tour.
Copy-Paste-Here’s-Your-Blogpost….no, that’s not what you do.
If you are too busy to go on a blog tour because you are too busy promoting, you’re lost in #EpicFAIL
There are bigger problems afoot if you don’t have evergreen blog content to offer a blog tour.
Is the problem a lack of ideas? (As we show, nope.)
41:25 — The Wrap-Up
So excited that we have Katie for a little more time!
Katie is gathering a lot of dirt on it.
And she’s a good intern ’cause she’s getting Tee coffee!
Pip and Tee struggle to keep the show on target
Weather Child now has a cover.
Tee & Pip head down to Richmond for The Writers’ Show!
Dawn’s Early Light hits the shelves at the end of March!
Something special coming up in February….
Oh yeah, RavenCon as well!
Sweet as! Katie is coming to Balticon!!! And she’s talking about beer!!!
We need a better sign-off for Katie…
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Recorded on the final night in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, writers of different backgrounds, interests, and works waiting to become works-in-progess gather around the microphones and look back on an amazing five days of food, booze, words, and hut tub soakings.
Welcome to the Smoky Mountains Writers’ Retreat of 2014.
Wear earbuds or send the kids and your mom out of the room. The authors are hitting the sauce, so we get saucy…
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00:00 — Introduction
Yes, two shows in a week! How about that?
Tee’s appetite is still adjusting to realistic standards.
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Tee and Pip pull off the miracle podcast and reach NUMBER 25, but they don’t do it alone. From the headquarters of The Gearheart comes Renaissance Man Alex White. He’s an artist. He’s a writer. He’s a musician. He’s brought so much of his talent to the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, and now he comes on mic with The Shared Desk to talk about how he got his black belt in collaboration fu.
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00:00 — Introduction
Tee goes with a HBO theme on the opening drop-in’s…
Welcoming a special guest, Alex White, who is in town…because he wants to be!
What’s going on with the three of us?
Pip’s turning in new pitches. (Titles need a bit of work…)
Tee’s closing in on his Kindle Worlds’ deadline.
Alex has a new work-in-progress that delves into the paranormal.
Paying authors: We think it’s fun!
7:29 — An Audience with Alex White, Master Collaborator
Apart from Jack Mangan, Alex White has contributed and collaborated with us the most concerning the Ministry.
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Enjoy the ride
and we’ll catch you later.
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Deadlines, distractions, and…something else that starts with D…but who cares? WE’RE BACK and we’re kicking off August with news about the Parsec Awards, where we will be this month, and that time when you have to say “Goodbye” to the worlds you have created.
00:00 — Introduction
Since when is “17” a landmark?
What the hell is Pip thinking about stepping on my drop-in’s?!
Whodathunkit? We’re a Parsec Finalist for 2012!!! (And we blanked on the good people at Roundtable Podcast! Don’t hate the game, bros — hate the playas!)
Flashing back to sharing the desk with P.J. Schnyder…
02:47 — Ending a Series
Pip is gearing up for the big goodbye to the characters of Geist.
What are the feelings an author harbors when writing that final scene in a series?
Pip compares ending her adventures with Sorcha, Raed, and Merrick against her adventures with Shakespeare and Puck.
How (and why) do authors grow so attached to their characters?
Is this the end of Pip’s journey with The Order, or just this generation?
How do authors plan a series? Well, a lot it hinges on the contracts.
Wow…Tee is kinda quiet….at least, with his comments. (The drop-in’s on the other hand…)
What about the Ministry? Well, if Pip gets her way…
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So it’s been a while since we have sat down and recorded a Shared Desk, but how about this — when we finally got a chance to record a Shared Desk, we did it with the lovely P.J. Schnyder. This episode is about tough choices we make as authors in bringing about the demise of a character. Why do we do this to our creations? Is it for shock value? Is it for impact? And do we really care in the end?
00:00 — Introduction
A brand new Shared Desk, and this time we brought a friend!
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WOW! We collected enough comments, questions, and overall opinions from you, the listeners, to make this show our second Listener Appreciation Show! We got some questions on Kindle, Scrivener, and Book Reviews, but we also got questions on topics we have never tackled before on mic.
And Pip gets not one but TWO drop-in’s of her own…
00:00 — Introduction
A quick shout out to Geek Radio Daily for their own touch on the show…
Even more of YOUR CALLS, YOUR EMAILS, YOUR SOCILA NETWORK COMMENTS!
Yeah, Tee is showing the kind of love that only Soundboard can truly deliver.
…and the Shared Desk Voicemail Line for the next one — 703.791.1701
04:30 — Your Voicemail and Email
Guy Barber from Cornwall, UK, sends us kudos for the audio version of HarperAudio’s Phoenix Rising and The Shared Desk, and puts in his vote for an audio version of Geist.
Ben from Florida asks close on the same question as emails from Valkyrie Page and Chris Forshner on how we collaborate and the creative process between the two of us.
Tee talks about Pip’s strengths and then discusses his own.
How other authors collaborate against what Pip and Tee do.
Melissa Hay surprises us with a call, and brings up the topic of book bloggers and how authors and publishers are keeping the peace, at least for now…
Terry Arman asks us what we thought of the promo he cut for us…but has us at a loss.
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Yes we wound up being a day late on this show, but as you will hear in the end we have been anything but idle. This episode is all about Scrivener, that popular software authors swear by. Tee and Pip share their likes, dislikes, and future possibilities for the application, and then Tee shares a rant about Seth Godin and a liberal use of the C-word.
UPDATE: With special thanks to Steve Saylor, we have discovered that YES, you can export your Scrivener works in digital publishing formats. Under the “File” menu, scroll down to “Compile” (keyboard shortcut is Option + Command for the Mac) and select from the sub-menu of “Compile for:” the “Kindle” option. (Click on the image for a larger version.)
A call for your feedback and your voicemail. If we get enough feedback, we will bump up our Listener Appreciation show to Show #15. Comment, send us voicemail, and let’s talk!
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Bleah! Between the Power Bug that Sonic Boom brought home from school and final reviews of The Janus Affair, Tee and Pip are finally back behind the mic, bringing a perspective on book bloggers, book reviews, and keeping it classy in light of a bad review.
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With the 2011 Con Season behind them and friends jumping into the writerly madness of November, Pip and Tee spend the show looking at NaNoWriMo or the National Novel Writing Month. They got rants, they got opinions, and they got their own bits of advice for those brave enough to jump into the competition.
To all those taking the NaNoWriMo challenge — good luck!
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Fresh from their WorldCon experience, Tee & Pip bring to The Shared Desk their first interview and introduce a new segment to the show. There is also talk of their next con appearance and what lies ahead for the Fall.
00:00 — Introduction
Two episodes and fresh from the land where finding a cab is a Herculean labor…
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A general scope out of who we (Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine) are, what we plan on doing with the Shared Desk podcast.
Hopefully this gives you an idea what you can expect as we proceed forward in this new endeavor.
If you have any ideas, queries or comments then please email either pip AT pjballantine DOT com or tee AT teemorris DOT com, or drop us a voicemail at 703.791.1701.
…which doesn’t quite age well. At all. Let’s discuss.
…and no, things didn’t really fall apart with Matt LeBlanc. It started with the script.
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still online and waiting for you at Amazon. (Other formats coming soon.)
The Dog Days of Podcasting 2017: Concerning Mary, Gary, and Ensign Jones
Special thanks to Corbin J Drake for the photo.
Shout out to Brian “Arkle” Webber from Shameless Cashgrab and other podcasts for the comment and inspiring today’s Dog Days of Podcasting entry.
Recorded this morning and posted this evening, Tee settles in to talk about something else but follows the rabbit hole Arkle opens up about the “Mary Sue” complex that haunts fiction. The question is, should it? Can developing characters from your own experiences, hopes, and dreams, work in fiction?
It is a tricky tightrope to walk — very tricky — but it’s possible.
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