The Well-Storied Podcast
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The Well-Storied Podcast
Insights, encouragement, and actionable advice designed to help writers craft sensational novels and build their best writing lives. Always in 30 minutes or less, so you can get back to writing. Hosted by author and Well-Storied.com founder Kristen Kieffer.
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Book Notes: How to Market a Book by Joanna Penn
In today's episode, Kristen shares the second installment of Book Notes, a blog + podcast series that summarizes and provides key takeaways from books...
How to Market a Book With Amazon Ad Campaigns
Running an Amazon ad campaign can be a great way to introduce your book to new readers and increase sales, but there’s no denying that Amazon Advertis...
Book Notes: 2,000 to 10,000 by Rachel Aaron
In today's episode, Kristen launches a new feature called Book Notes in which she summarizes and provides key takeaways from books on writing, publish...
How to Craft Complex Plots by Introducing Side Quests
Do you often struggle to write full-length novels, never sure how to fill the gaps in your story without writing filler or fluff?
In tod...
Three Simple Steps to a Satisfying Writing Session
Do you often get lost in research rabbit holes or relentlessly re-read old work? Do you toggle between chapters in search of scenes you "feel" like wr...
How Writers Can Organize Creative Work in a Second Brain
Creative are knowledge workers who rely upon information and ideas to create fantastic work. So it’s no wonder that our heads are often chaotic or in...
How to Level Up Your Writing & Storytelling Skills
Storytelling is both an art and a craft — and like any craft, the skills required to write great stories can be taught and learned.
What are som...
How to Maintain Momentum in Your Writing Practice
Consistency is key to building a successful and fulfilling writing life, yet it's all too easy to procrastinate the act of putting pen to paper when o...
How Writers Can Weather Creative Setbacks With Resilience
Every writing journey has its bumps in the road. Sometimes those setbacks are of our own making, while other times they aren't our fault in the slight...
How Writers Can Handle Constructive Criticism With Grace
As helpful as external feedback can be, there’s no doubt that allowing others to read and critique our work can be a terrifying process. Even with a p...
How to Create a Sales-Boosting Author Website
To succeed in the business of writing and selling books, you’ll need an online headquarters — a place that readers can visit to learn everything they...
How Writers Can Quit the Creative Comparison Game
Creative comparison often gets a bad rap. Like self-doubt, comparison can be a lens through which writers can identify the strengths and weaknesses in...
How to Build an Effective Author Platform
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To find commercial success, every author needs a platform -- the ability to sell books...
How to Craft Impactful Character Deaths
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Death can serve as a powerful storytelling tool in many ways, but with great power comes g...
The Three P's of Successful Self-Publishing
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Many writers dream of becoming full-time authors. But how exactly do successful self-publi...
Should You Publish Your Book Traditionally or Independently?
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Both the traditional and independent publishing industries offer writers the fantastic...
How to Craft Emotionally Complex Characters
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Writers are commonly advised to craft complex characters. But what exactly makes a char...
The Must-Have Foundation for Any Strong Writing Routine
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Have you tried and failed to build a lasting writing habit time and time again?
Taki...
How to Maintain Creative Momentum With Habit Tracking
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Want to create a better, stronger writing habit? One of the easiest ways to double down...
Atomic Storytelling: Developing Effective Story Beats
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Every story features at least one arc of events. This arc can be broken down into acts, wh...
How to Write With Focus & Efficiency
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Wish you could crank out your stories more quickly? You aren’t alone.
In...
The Do's And Don'ts Of Crafting Subplots
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Subplots are more than just a secondary plotline in a story; They're secondary conflict...
How to Test the Strength of Your Shiny New Story Idea
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Shiny new story ideas are doubtless tempting to pursue. The only issue? Some story ide...
How to Define Your Characters' Story Goals
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The surest way to drive your plot forward is to arm your characters with goals they’r...
How to Overcome Perfectionism in Your Writing Life
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As writers, holding our work to high standards can help us craft sensational stories. Bu...
How to Develop Your Story's Themes
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Themes are an integral part of any good story. Yet many genre fiction writers fail to con...
33 Ways to Write Stronger Characters
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If you want readers to invest in your characters and their journeys, then you...
How to Craft Powerful Character Motivations
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Your characters’ motivations hold the power to make or break readers’ interest in yo...
My Favorite Method for Building Characters' Personalities
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To fill our stories with characters who feel as real as the people around us, we m...
How to Build Emotional Conflict By Utilizing Your Character's Lie
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Emotional struggles are human struggles. To create conflict readers find compelling, it's wo...
Should Writers Maintain an Active Social Media Presence?
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My Social Media Announcement: www.well-storied.com/socialmedia
Do you need to maint...
How to Craft Positive Character Arcs
A character arc is a sequence of events that details a character’s internal struggle. In today's episode, Kristen Kieffer breaks down how to craft pow...
How (& Why) To Write Inclusive Fiction
To write inclusively is to take an active role in improving how marginalized communities are represented in literature by including a diverse cast of...
How to Define Your Character's Ghost
Past events hold the power to shape who your character is and how they act when your story begins. With that in mind, today's episode takes a deep div...
Should You Follow Popular Writing Rules?
Popular writing rules exist for a reason. Or do they? Writing is both an art and a craft. While language and storytelling serve as forms of self-expre...
How to Recover From Writing Burnout
Inside every writer sits a creative well. Whenever you sit down to write, you dip your bucket into this well, drawing the energy you need to attend th...
How to Craft Page-Turning Chapter Endings
Never is a reader more likely to set your book aside (and perhaps not pick it up again) than when they finish a chapter. Therefore, as a writer, it's...
A Pantser's Guide to Story Structure
If you consider yourself a pantser, you likely don’t spend much (or any) time pre-writing your stories prior to drafting. Instead, you “write by the s...
A Quick-Start Guide to Self-Publishing Your Book
If part of your personal definition of writing success includes making a living from your writing, it's time to start thinking like an entrepreneur. T...
Business Models for Authors
Are you willing to adopt an entrepreneurial spirit to make a living from your writing? If so, let's break down the most common business models authors...