The Taylor Stevens Show

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, Taylor and Steve discuss a project you’ll hear more about throughout the first half of 2021. The project involves creating and writing a short story, using Taylor’s oft mentioned spreadsheet, to be submitted to several short story publishers. If you have questions […] The post TSS265: The Short Story Project – Part 1 appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, Taylor and Steve discuss a recent project of Taylors and the importance of covers and sales copy to the success of your book. We also discuss the difference in the way we interpret the word blurb. If you have questions or suggestions […] The post TSS264: The Importance of Covers and Sales Copy for Your Book appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, Taylor and Steve discuss the curse and value of having deadlines for our writing. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our contact information on the Connect page. […] The post TSS263: The Curse and Value of Deadlines appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, Taylor shares a part of the writing life that is rarely discussed, the process of ordering fan give-aways and managing the quality of the products. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can […] The post TSS262: How to Order Book Cover Magnets in 297 Easy Steps appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, Taylor and Steve discuss the impact of Covid and other current events on the life of both traditionally published and indie authors. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions […] The post TSS261: How is Covid Impacting the Writing Life? appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, a follow-up to episode 257, we dive deeper into the importance of satisfying readers with the ending to your stories. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as comments […] The post TSS260: The Importance of a Satisfying Ending appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, we discuss the importance of names in your stories and Taylor shares her thoughts on establishing usage rules for character names. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as […] The post TSS259: Should You Set Up Usage Rules for Character Names? appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, Taylor shares her latest thoughts on the importance of Theme in stories. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our contact information on the Connect page. Please consider […] The post TSS258: Why Theme is Important in our Stories appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, Taylor shares her thoughts on the importance of tying up loose ends in our stories. As you’ll hear, she identifies three things that most books should deliver to satisfy readers. Those are emotional closure and conflict resolution, answers to open questions, and […] The post TSS257: Tying Up Loose Ends in your Story appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, Taylor shares some insights on identifying and eliminating overused words and writing tics in our writing. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our contact […] The post TSS256: Avoiding Overused Words and Writing Tics appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! “Vagueness is what happens when the words on the page don’t say what the author thinks they say.” — Taylor In this week’s episode, Taylor shares her thoughts on the importance of being precise or avoiding vagueness in your writing. If you have questions or suggestions […] The post TSS255: The Importance of Avoiding Vagueness In Your Writing appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, Taylor continues her thoughts on the importance of maintaining character consistency throughout your book or series. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our contact […] The post TSS254: How to maintain character consistency throughout your story – Part II appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, Taylor shares her insights on the importance of maintaining character consistency throughout your book or series. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our contact […] The post TSS253: How to maintain character consistency throughout your story appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, Taylor shares her thoughts on ways of moving your character from here to there, without boring your readers. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as comments or find […] The post TSS252: Getting your characters from here to there appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, Taylor reviews the homework assignment she gave us several weeks ago during episode 244 where we analyzed the opening sequence for The Innocent. Author C.A. Newsome, who writes the Lia Anderson Dog Park Mysteries, provided the winning entry, which Taylor read during […] The post TSS251: Taylor Reviews Listener Homework Assignments appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, we share a conversation between Taylor and Steve that was not intended to be a podcast, but it turned out to be an interesting conversation on inner dialog that we hope you’ll find useful. We’ll be back with our regularly scheduled podcast […] The post TSS250: A short episode on problem-solving through inner dialog appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this week’s episode, Taylor continues her discussion of Accidental Amnesia with a video game analogy, then explains how to avoid it, and or fix it in our writing. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can […] The post TSS249: Accidental Amnesia – Why it’s a problem and how to avoid it in your writing (Part 2) appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this episode, Taylor explores the issue of Accidental Amnesia, how to avoid it, and or fix it in our writing. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our […] The post TSS248: Accidental Amnesia – Why it’s a problem and how to avoid it in your writing appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this episode, Taylor follows up on a discussion of character aimlessness from episode 211 with a specific example. We also discuss ideas for strengthening inner dialog by adding new information and keeping it focused on character, conflict, or plot. Taylor also shares thoughts on character […] The post TSS247: Character Aimlessness, Inner Dialog and Character In Motion appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this episode, Taylor follows up on the importance of cause and effect with two examples of scenes that violate the Law of Cause and Effect. As a review, Taylor defines the Law of Cause and Effect as: Characters only act or react (the effect) in […] The post TSS246: Examples of a Cause and Effect Problems appeared first on The Taylor Stevens Show.