Beacons Podcast

Nano '22 is in the books and finished! Kat and Leah debrief about their nano experience this year and talk about how they are moving forward with writing in December.

What is time and why does it? Week four in the books with some f'bombs and pie.

Week three completed and Kat and Leah are deep in the word mines as they prep for the big push that is the last week of Nano. Everything looks fuzzy from here. Send donuts. 

Two weeks into Nanowrimo 2022 and "oof" is the word of the day. Kat is doing great, Leah is up and down, but with an oof and a coffee, they keep going.

Kat and Leah discuss their crap first week of Nanowrimo 2022 and how they are bouncing back into week two.

National Novel Writing Month starts next week and Kat and Leah talk about how they are, or rather are not, preparing to enter the 50k word mines with the howling of the November winds at their beck and call.

Things we need to write ebb and flow. In this episode, Kat and Leah share their needs to create a writing life.

In this episode about tropes (for real this time!), Kat and Leah talk about how they love tropes and how they approach them as both readers and writers.

With life ever conspiring to thwart creativity, Kat and Leah share how they keep things consistent in the writer's room and beyond.

On this first episode of Season Three (huzzah!), Kat and Leah talk about outlining their projects for success. It's not about tropes. That's later. Welcome back Beacons!

In which Kat and Leah talk about creating your 2022 writing goals and how to run like hell towards them.

In which Kat interviews Leah who has to talk about herself and answer questions because those are the rules (said Kat).

In which Leah asks Kat questions about reading and writing and we all get to be nosy about Kat together, learning of Kat's brilliance and wisdom and cleverness.

In which Kat and Leah talk about why they write and how those roots come from books and writers they've been exposed to over their lives.

In which Kat and Leah discuss their approach to and feelings about scaffolding, the parts around a story authors add like how many parts stories are broken into or chapter titles or poetic interludes.

In which Kat and Leah talk a little about the beginning of the revising process in order to give themselves confidence for the long process ahead of them.

In which Kat and Leah go into more detail about how they wrote during the curve ball that is the pandemic. 

In which Kat and Leah attempt to get their podcasting legs under them and do a passable job. Updates about what they've been doing since the pandemic started and how they fared over the last year and three/fourths. 

In this sixth and final episode in the series on Nanowrimo, Kat and Leah talk about the "what next" part to finishing the first draft of a book.

In the fifth episode of the Nanowrimo series, Kat and Leah talk about the final push in these last few days of writing an entire book in a month.