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Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar The Taylor Stevens Show Kicking writing in the butt, one word at a time Home Taylor’s Books ITunes Every Episode About Connect TSS227: The Importance of Cause and Effect to Keeping Your Story on Track March 24, 2020 by Stephen Leave a Comment http://media.blubrry.com/taylor_stevens_show/p/taylorstevensshow.s3.amazonaws.com/TSS227.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Android | RSS In this episode, Taylor shares her thoughts on the importance of cause and effect in storytelling. Then she shares how the lack of a proper cause and effect relationship in her work in process caused a significant re-write. Thanks so much for joining us again this week! If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you . You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our contact information on the Connect page. Please consider supporting Taylor on Patreon for Patreon only teaching and information . You may also wish to join us in the Taylor Stevens Fan Club on Facebook. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see on the left of the post. Also, please leave an honest review for THE TAYLOR STEVENS SHOW Podcast on iTunes ! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and mean a great deal to us. They matter in the rankings of the show, and we read every one of them. And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes , Google Play , or Stitcher to get automatic updates. Filed Under: Story TSS226: Adding your Worldview to your Stories March 17, 2020 by Stephen Leave a Comment http://media.blubrry.com/taylor_stevens_show/p/taylorstevensshow.s3.amazonaws.com/TSS226.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Android | RSS We begin this week’s episode by discussing Taylor’s recent email / Patreon post about Covid-19. If you haven’t read it yet and wish to do so, it’s available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/break-from-34892965 If you’ve read her message, you’ll remember that she worked very hard to avoid including her worldview in the article, so we picked up on that theme as the topic for this week’s show. We discuss the pros and cons of including your world views when writing fiction, and how, to a certain extent it’s unavoidable. Thanks so much for joining us again this week! If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you . You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our contact information on the Connect page. Please consider supporting Taylor on Patreon for Patreon only teaching and information . You may also wish to join us in the Taylor Stevens Fan Club on Facebook. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see on the left of the post. Also, please leave an honest review for THE TAYLOR STEVENS SHOW Podcast on iTunes ! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and mean a great deal to us. They matter in the rankings of the show, and we read every one of them. And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes , Google Play , or Stitcher to get automatic updates. Filed Under: life , Story , Subplots TSS225: How Going Deeper than the Obvious Makes Characters Feel Real and Alive March 10, 2020 by Stephen http://media.blubrry.com/taylor_stevens_show/p/taylorstevensshow.s3.amazonaws.com/TSS225.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Android | RSS In this week’s episode, Taylor shares her thoughts on the importance of going deeper with your characters and how that helps to bring them to life in the minds of your readers. As you’ll hear, it doesn’t take a lot of additional words to make this happen. Again this week, we’re pulling from The Informationist, so if you have a hardcover version, she’s talking about a scene that begins on page 211. Thanks so much for joining us again this week! If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you . You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our contact information on the Connect page. Please consider supporting Taylor on Patreon for Patreon only teaching and information . You may also wish to join us in the Taylor Stevens Fan Club on Facebook. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see on the left of the post. Also, please leave an honest review for THE TAYLOR STEVENS SHOW Podcast on iTunes ! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and mean a great deal to us. They matter in the rankings of the show, and we read every one of them. And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes , Google Play , or Stitcher to get automatic updates. Filed Under: Story TSS224: How to Develop Character in a Plot-driven Story March 3, 2020 by Taylor http://media.blubrry.com/taylor_stevens_show/p/taylorstevensshow.s3.amazonaws.com/TSS224.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Android | RSS In this week’s episode, Taylor discovers an interesting source for teaching material, her first book, The Informationist . As you may know, she’s reading The Informationist for the first time as a reader, and she’s finding teaching moments inside the material. In this week’s episode, she shares part of a scene in chapter 15 as an example of developing character in a plot-driven story. Thanks so much for joining us again this week! If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you . You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our contact information on the Connect page. Please consider supporting Taylor on Patreon for Patreon only teaching and information . You may also wish to join us in the Taylor Stevens Fan Club on Facebook. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see on the left of the post. Also, please leave an honest review for THE TAYLOR STEVENS SHOW Podcast on iTunes ! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and mean a great deal to us. They matter in the rankings of the show, and we read every one of them. And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes , Google Play , or Stitcher to get automatic updates. Filed Under: Story TSS223: Thought, Action, Speech, and… Gardening. February 25, 2020 by Stephen http://media.blubrry.com/taylor_stevens_show/p/taylorstevensshow.s3.amazonaws.com/TSS223.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Android | RSS In this week’s episode, Taylor shares some recent experience with gardening and how it relates to refilling her creative well. Then we get into an in-depth discussion of the Hack The Craft concept of Thought, Action, Speech . Thanks so much for joining us again this week! If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you . You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our contact information on the Connect page. Please consider supporting Taylor on Patreon for Patreon only teaching and information . You may also wish to join us in the Taylor Stevens Fan Club on Facebook. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see on the left of the post. Also, please leave an honest review for THE TAYLOR STEVENS SHOW Podcast on iTunes ! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and mean a great deal to us. They matter in the rankings of the show, and we read every one of them. And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes , Google Play , or Stitcher to get automatic updates. Filed Under: Craft TSS222: The Way Thoughts Present Themselves In Your Mind Can Affect Your Writing February 18, 2020 by Stephen http://media.blubrry.com/taylor_stevens_show/p/taylorstevensshow.s3.amazonaws.com/TSS222.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Android | RSS In this week’s episode, Taylor and Steve discuss the idea that we don’t all “hear” the same things in our minds. Some have thoughts that form as words and sentences, while others have thoughts as concepts,...