A Beautiful Mess Podcast

This week we're sharing winter comforts that reliably get us through our least favorite season of the year.
 
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Winter Comforts:
Elsie: Books in bed!
Emma: Snow Suit
Elsie: Hot water - tea, coffee, apple cider, hot toddies, hot tubs, and bathes
Emma: Daydream, redecorate, and organize your house
Elsie: Go out with friends. (get out of the house!!)
Emma: Game of fire, cozy life
 
Guilty Pleasure Treasure:
Elsie: Christopher Nolan movies
Emma: Turkish Delights and Vanilla powder from Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf
 
Book Report:
Elsie: The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maas
Emma: The Ministry of Time
 
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This week, we're watching the 1995 classic Empire Records. We're also doing a hot take debate about technological advances, and we're bringing back our segment guilty pleasure treasure.
 
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Guilty Pleasure Teasure:
Elsie - American Funyuns
Emma - American Oreos
 
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This week we are discussing core values. We'll share our results from the Values Bridge quiz, as well as our thoughts on how defining core values can improve your life. And in our hot take debate, we're discussing separating art from the artist and rounding it out with whether or not we refrigerate our butter. All the important things that you need to know.
 
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In honor of Emma's 40th birthday, this week we're doing an official midlife crisis episode. Our experiences didn't go exactly like the movies, and we have a lot to discuss. It's going to be fun!
 
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Guilty Pleasure Treasure:
Emma: Cinnamon dragons
Elsie: Watch a period piece while on period
 
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We get a lot of questions from people starting on their very first novel. So in this week's episode, we're giving you all the advice that we wish we could time travel back and give ourselves on the day we started our first novels. There's so much writing advice out there, and no matter who you are, it's not all going to work for you. So in this episode, we'll share things to think about and consider as you plot and plan to begin a draft of your very first novel. And the bottom line is, you can do it, and we are here to cheer you on.
 
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Tips for new writers:
Give yourself a writing assignment
Just write your first novel
Immerse don't tell
Read
Get really comfort drafting unpolished
Be a joyful student
Invest a lot of time in ideation
Learn about the business of publishing
Your writing routine matters
 
Resources:
Show Don't Tell by Sandra Greth
Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes
Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
Write your Novel from the Middle by James Scott Bell
The Author's Publishing Playbook by Carly Watters
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