Write to Support Your Writing: A Guest Spot on The Author Biz

The-Aurthor-Biz-1400-x-1400-01-1Whether you’re an aspir­ing author or a work­ing jour­ney­man writer, Steve Camp­bel­l’s pod­cast The Author Biz is worth your time and atten­tion.

And I’m not say­ing this just because he recent­ly had me as a guest on his show—a show dur­ing which I talked about my expe­ri­ences with the dif­fer­ent kinds of writ­ing I’ve done to sup­port my fic­tion.

I’m say­ing this because he’s inter­viewed a wide vari­ety of writ­ers, and if you want to under­stand more about the busi­ness side of this endeav­or, you need to lis­ten to the wis­dom of peo­ple who are actu­al­ly doing it, liv­ing it, every day.

In my inter­view, in addi­tion to talk­ing about my lat­est Dako­ta Stevens mys­tery, Steve and I dis­cuss var­i­ous lessons (or “take­aways” to use a busi­ness trope) that I’ve learned from the many types of writ­ing I’ve done over the years. The focus is on my speech­writ­ing, but I think there are a few nuggets of wis­dom in there that could save you time in your pur­suit of suc­cess as a writer—however you choose to define Suc­cess.

Below is my inter­view, but be sure to click through to Steve’s site and lis­ten to some of the oth­er authors’ inter­views. I think you’ll enjoy them.

 

 

 

By Chris Orcutt

CHRIS ORCUTT is an American novelist and fiction writer with over 30 years' writing experience and more than a dozen books in his oeuvre. Since 2015, Chris been working exclusively on his magnum opus. Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome: The Legendary Adventures of Avery “Ace” Craig is a 9-episode novel about teens in the 1980s. It’s about ’80s teens, but for adults (in other words, it’s decidedly not YA literature), and he’s applied this epic storytelling approach to the least examined, most misunderstood, most marginalized narrative space in American literature: the lives and inner worlds of teenagers.

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