First Draft Friday: Conversations about author craft

Updated: 27 Mar 2024 • 75 episodes
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Authors A.I. presents First Draft Friday!  A regular open house for the author community where we talk about the craft of novel writing and storytelling with fellow authors, editors or entrepreneurs. Learn tips and trade secrets from the best names in fiction writing.   Have a topic you’d like us to tackle? Know an author who would make a good guest? Let us know at team@authors.ai  And get more author resources, including our manuscript analysis tool, at authors.ai

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Our guest is instant #1 New York Times bestselling author Lucy Score who discusses how she adds humor to her work – and shares tips on how you can do the same. Find out about our next First Draft Friday chats, and our manuscript analysis too, at https://authors.ai/ This is an unedited chat loaded with questions and ans

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In this episode of First Draft Friday, our guest is bestselling thriller author Melissa F. Miller. Melissa discusses writing in multiple third-person POV thrillers. Melissa says “I love writing big, juicy multiple POV thrillers. Every once in a while, I’ll do dual narrators (like my Shenandoah Shadows romantic suspense

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Catch up as our guest,  bestselling romantic fantasy author Scarlett St. Clair discusses her work with Alessandra Torre, and explains how she creates dark anti-heroes who readers fall in love with.  More about our manuscript analysis tool and author resources at authors.ai This is an unedited chat loaded with questions

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Bestselling contemporary romance author Xio Axelrod and Alessandra Torre  discuss themes related to writing romance, and Xio’s journey from indie to published author.  This is an unedited chat loaded with questions and answers. Listen in! Did you know you can get an expert analysis of your novel in just minutes? Get yo

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Variety is the spice of life – but is it also the secret to a long and prosperous author career?  Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler  knows his stuff, and with a recent pivot into writing thrillers, he’s the perfect author to have this discussion with.  This is an unedited chat loaded with questions an

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Authors Alessandra Torre and Mary Carroll Moore discuss how writers can incorporate themselves into their characters. Mary Carroll shares how she incorporated some of her own life experiences into her latest book, A Woman’s Guide to Search and Rescue. This is an unedited chat loaded with questions and answers. Listen i

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