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Today’s show is the first in a four-part miniseries called Home. Writing Class Radio helped produce a documentary to help end homelessness for Chapman Partnership, a homeless center in South Florida.  

We put out a public call for submissions for stories about home. The call brought so many different and fascinating takes on home. Thank you to all the people who submitted stories. 

In our series, you’ll hear a story about a woman finally feeling at home in her body, a man who finds home through love with a woman while he’s dealing with addiction, and a woman who finds home in another country less racially divided. 

Today’s story by Anechy Padron is about being torn between two homes.

The writing technique we’re bringing out is about writing that story that doesn’t have a clear ending or resolution. We always want to make a solid point, but sometimes the point is a conflict. The story you’ll hear reveals that conflict.

Anechy was born in Cuba. She’s an actress-puppeteer and writer who worked as a clown in a Cuban circus. Anechy writes in English and Spanish and has been published in the Mexican anthology, Cada Loco Con Su Tema. For more Anechy, visit her travel blog anechynotes.blogspot.com and creative blog anechy7.wixsite.com/anechymade.  

Writing Class Radio is co-hosted by Allison Langer (www.allisonlanger.com) and Andrea Askowitz (www.andreaaskowitz.com). Writing Class Radio is produced by Virginia Lora, Andrea Askowitz and Allison Langer. Mia Pennekamp is our media specialist.

Theme music is by Ari Herstand. Additional music by Podington Bear.

There’s more writing class on our website (www.writingclassradio.com), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/writingclassradio/), Instagram and Twitter (@wrtgclassradio).

If you love the lessons you get on each episode, you can get them ALL in one place--our three-part video series--for $50. Click Video Classes on our website.

Writing Class Radio is now open to submissions from our listeners. Go to the submissions page on our website for guidelines. We pay!

If you want to be a part of the movement that helps people better understand each other through storytelling, follow us on Patreon. For $10/month you can join Andrea’s submissions conversation. You can ask her any question about publishing. For $25/month you can join Allison’s First Draft weekly writers group, where you can write and share your work. Go to www.Patreon.com/writingclassradio or click here to support us.

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Welcome to Write a Book that Doesn't Suck, the podcast where you'll learn to write, publish, and sell a book that readers will love! Setting up the story is crucial to create a solid foundation. Without it, your story will crumble. Learn how to find value in life to build truth in story as you set up your story before penning the first word.

 Host Jaimie Engle has worked with tens of thousands of writers on craft and book branding for the past decade. Her award-winning books and critically acclaimed presentations are the basis for this podcast, and the book of the same name that inspired it all. Plus, she walks her dog while she teaches craft…how cool is that?

 Each episode features a single, quick writing tip to help you improve your skills, sell more books, and climb the ladder to best-seller! Jaimie believes all writers have the same goal: getting great books into readers' hands, and her mission is to help YOU become an incredible author! 

 If you like this episode, please subscribe to the podcast, like it, and share it.

If you have questions or topics you'd like to see on a future podcast, please comment. Jaimie loves to help authors, so let her know how best she can serve you!

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Today on our show, we share a New York Times Modern Love essay we love by Jessica Strawser, editor-at-large at Writer’s Digest. Her essay caught the attention of literary agent Barbara Poelle, an agent with the Irene Goodman Literary Agency and the author of Funny You Should Ask: Mostly Serious Answers to Mostly Serious Questions About the Publishing Industry. Her book is based on her Writer's Digest column of the same name. On today’s show, we share our conversation with Barbara about how to get an agent.

We asked Barbara all kinds of questions: Is now a good time to query? How do I find an agent? Is there such a thing as a dream agent? Do authors even need an agent? What should I do before signing an agent? We also ask the big question: Can we write about certain experiences that aren’t our own? Barbara gives us the insider info. 

Writing Class Radio is a podcast where you’ll hear true personal stories and learn a little about how to write your own stories. Writing Class Radio is equal parts heart and art. By heart we mean the truth in a story. By art we mean the craft of writing. No matter what’s going on in our lives, writing class is where we tell the truth. It’s where we work out our shit, and figure out who we are. There’s no place in the world like writing class and we want to bring you in.

Writing Class Radio is co-hosted by Allison Langer (www.allisonlanger.com) and Andrea Askowitz (www.andreaaskowitz.com). Writing Class Radio is produced by Virginia Lora, Andrea Askowitz and Allison Langer. Ariel Henley is our media specialist.

Theme music is by Emia. Additional music is by Justina Shandler and Poddington Bear.

There’s more writing class on our website (www.writingclassradio.com), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/writingclassradio/), Instagram and Twitter (@wrtgclassradio).

If you love the lessons you get on each episode, you can get them ALL in one place--our three-part video series--for $50. Click Video Classes on our website.

Writing Class Radio is now open to submissions from our listeners. Go to the submissions page on our website for guidelines. We pay!

If you want to be a part of the movement that helps people better understand each other through storytelling, we are now on Patreon. For $10/month you can join Andrea’s submissions conversation. We’ll support each other as we try to get our stories published. For $25/month you can join Allison’s weekly writers lunch, where you can write and share your work. Go to www.Patreon.com/writingclassradio or click here to support us.

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Welcome to Write a Book that Doesn't Suck, the podcast where you'll learn to write, publish, and sell a book that readers will love! The first step to composing an incredible book is coming up with the idea. For some of us, we have more ideas than we can handle. For the rest of us, we tend to have a concept, but struggle with filling in the in-between. Most authors are categorized as Outliners or Pantsters. Which are you? Do you know? Listen to this podcast and find out the benefits and withdrawals of each, how to discover your best pre-planning, and a challenge to write in a new way to broaden your writer’s toolbox!
Host Jaimie Engle of the Write Engle has worked with tens of thousands of writers on craft and book branding for the past decade. Her award-winning books and critically acclaimed
presentations are the basis for this podcast, and the book of the same name that inspired it all. 
Each episode features a single, quick writing tip to help you improve your skills, sell more
books, and climb the ladder to best-seller! Jaimie believes all writers have the same goal: getting great books into readers' hands, and her mission is to help YOU become an incredible author! 
If you like this episode, please subscribe to the podcast, like it, and share it.
If you have questions or topics you'd like to see on a future podcast, please comment. Jaimie loves to help authors, so let her know how best she can serve you!
Looking for more? Join the community on facebook.com/writeabookthatdoesntsuck and (coming soon...) www.WriteABookThatDoesntSuck.com.
Stick around and check out all the amazing podcasts on Space Coast Podcast Network, too.
And finally, if you'd like a copy of Write a Book that Doesn’t Suck, head over to Amazon
(https://amzn.to/2uSq5L7) or any major retailer today!

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 Welcome to Write a Book that Doesn't Suck, the podcast where you'll learn to write, publish, and sell a book that readers will love! Weather is part of daily life. It’s one of the first things strangers feel comfortable enough to talk about. In this podcast, we dive into the benefits of including weather in fiction. From geography to alien topography, writers can raise the stakes for their protagonists by incorporating weather as an antagonist or simply to amp the stakes for your fiction. Host Jaimie Engle of the Write Engle has worked with tens of thousands of writers on craft and book branding for the past decade. Her award-winning books and critically acclaimed presentations are the basis for this podcast, and the book of the same name that inspired it all. Each episode features a single, quick writing tip to help you improve your skills, sell more books, and climb the ladder to best-seller! Jaimie believes all writers have the same goal: getting great books into readers' hands, and her mission is to help YOU become an incredible author! If you like this episode, please subscribe to the podcast, like it, and share it. If you have questions or topics you'd like to see on a future podcast, please comment. Jaimie loves to help authors, so let her know how best she can serve you! Looking for more? Join the community on facebook.com/writeabookthatdoesntsuck and (coming soon...) www.WriteABookThatDoesntSuck.com. Stick around and check out all the amazing podcasts on Space Coast Podcast Network, too. And finally, if you'd like a copy of Write a Book that Doesn’t Suck, head over to Amazon (https://amzn.to/2uSq5L7) or any major retailer today! 

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Welcome to Write a Book that Doesn't Suck, the podcast where you'll learn how to write, publish, and sell a book that readers will love! Host Jaimie Engle of the Write Engle has worked with tens of thousands of writers on craft and book branding for the past decade.

Her award-winning books and critically acclaimed presentations are the basis for this podcast, and the book of the same name that inspired it all. 

Each episode features a single, quick writing tip to help you improve your skills, sell more books, and climb the ladder to best-seller! Jaimie believes all writers have the same goal: getting great books into readers' hands, and her mission is to help YOU become an incredible author! 

If you like this episode, please subscribe to the podcast, like it, and share it.

If you have questions or topics you'd like to see on a future podcast, please comment. Jaimie loves to help authors, so let her know how best she can serve you!

Looking for more? Join the community on facebook.com/writeabookthatdoesntsuck and (coming soon...) www.WriteABookThatDoesntSuck.com.

Stick around and check out all the amazing podcasts on Space Coast Podcast Network, too.

And finally, if you'd like a copy of the book, head over to Amazon (https://amzn.to/2uSq5L7) or any major retailer today!

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If you want to be an author, you must write. There's no fancy way of answering, 'How to be an author,' except to say, WRITE! 

I don’t care if you use a pencil, a pen, a crayon, marker, or type…heck, you can even use voice-to-text recognition software. Whatever medium you choose, you must start and write.

You must study.

You must write. 

You must read.

In this episode we answer the three most important questions: 

1. How to Start (writing) a Book
2. How to Finish (writing a book)
3. How to Get Better (writing or writing a book)

If you're ready to find out How to Be An Author let's go! 

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Linda chats with Kellye Garrett about writing, her two novels, and her experience writing for the CBS crime series Cold Case. 

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Becoming a writer, Cynthia shares how and why it changed her life. She shares why telling our stories is so important, not matter who you tell them to or share them with. Challenges become part of a transformational journal.
Cynthia shares her amazing life stories, how they emerged and how they've helped others. We all have amazing stories, you could share them in so many ways. Our life is a collection of powerful stories.
What can you create form this wonderful life.
I forgave myself for everything, because I was singing my own songs.

Since I read about Jeff Bezos’ email from June 9, 2004, I have concluded that my clients need my training to survive at Amazon!” Why?” you ask. Well, Bezos is demanding that his team use their Executive Function when making a pitch for a new idea. He wants everyone to move away from the simplistic bullet-point lists in PowerPoint presentations. Rather, he wants his employees to submit a 4-6 page "narrative" that he calls memos. Executive Function lets you orchestrate ideas into a complex sequence and then expand them into a cohesive form that we collectively call “impressive writing.”

In her second podcast appearance, my guest, Dr. Bonnie Singer, who is an expert in this and also happens to be a brilliant fellow Speech-Language Pathologist, will talk about teaching writing. Please give it a listen and share with all the parents you know.* This is Bonnie’s second podcast episode that discusses important techniques to improve the writing process with the lens of Executive Function.

About Bonnie Singer, Ph.D.
Bonnie Singer, Ph.D. is the Founder/CEO of Architects For Learning, where she trains educators and consults with schools world-wide and she directs a staff in the Boston area that provides academic intervention, assessment, and consultation services. With expertise in language, literacy, and learning, she is passionate about working with students who struggle academically, especially with written expression. In her 30 years of clinical practice as a speech-language pathologist, she has worked with students of all ages, developing practical approaches to instruction that foster the development of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and executive function skills. In partnership with Dr. Anthony Bashir, she developed EmPOWER™, a method for teaching expository writing, and Brain Frames®, graphic scaffolds for language, literacy, teaching, and learning. Her research and publications focus on the relationship between spoken and written language, cognition, spatial processing, and self-regulated learning.

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“For sale. Baby Shoes. Never worn.” These 6 words capture your attention, hook your emotions, and unleash your imagination. Apparently, legend has it that during an afternoon lunch with friends, Hemingway bet that he could write the shortest novel in six words. And he did. Whether Hemingway really wrote that or not, the hardest thing you’ll ever learn to do is write! As a successful author, Hemingway certainly had all the support he needed from his brain’s air-traffic controller, his Executive Function. Join me in listening to expert, Dr. Bonnie Singer, present a compelling perspective on writing as the highest form of Executive Function proficiency.

About Bonnie Singer, Ph.D.
Bonnie Singer, Ph.D. is the Founder/CEO of Architects For Learning, where she trains educators and consults with schools world-wide and she directs a staff in the Boston area that provides academic intervention, assessment, and consultation services. With expertise in language, literacy, and learning, she is passionate about working with students who struggle academically, especially with written expression. In her 30 years of clinical practice as a speech-language pathologist, she has worked with students of all ages, developing practical approaches to instruction that foster the development of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and executive function skills. In partnership with Dr. Anthony Bashir, she developed EmPOWER™, a method for teaching expository writing, and Brain Frames®, graphic scaffolds for language, literacy, teaching, and learning. Her research and publications focus on the relationship between spoken and written language, cognition, spatial processing, and self-regulated learning.

Website

• ArchitectsForLearning.com