458: Intuitive Writing: Capture Your Character's Energy and Paint with Your Words — Interview
Release Date: 04/19/2023
485: Lesson 10 – Embrace the Journey
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Welcome to DIY MFA Radio, where I do a deep dive into the writing life as well as the craft and business of writing. Today’s episode ends our series: Ten Lessons from Ten Years of Podcasting. This is Lesson 10 – Embrace the Journey. Have you gotten the DIY MFA Starter Kit yet? This is a two week email series full of worksheets to help you DIY your MFA, so you can get the “knowledge without the college.” You’ll learn more about how to write with focus, read with purpose, and build your community. You’ll also receive Writer Fuel, our newsletter full of words of wisdom and resources...
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484: Lesson 9 – Take Baby Steps
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Welcome to DIY MFA Radio, where I do a deep dive into the writing life as well as the craft and business of writing. Today’s episode continues our series: Ten Lessons from Ten Years of Podcasting. This is Lesson 9 – Take Baby Steps. Have you gotten the DIY MFA Starter Kit yet? This is a two week email series full of worksheets to help you DIY your MFA, so you can get the “knowledge without the college.” You’ll learn more about how to write with focus, read with purpose, and build your community. You’ll also receive Writer Fuel, our newsletter full of words of wisdom and resources...
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483: Lesson 8 – Track the Money
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482: Lesson 7 – Practice, Practice, Practice
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481: Lesson 6 – Balance is Fallacy
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480: Lesson 5 – Choose Abundance Over Scarcity
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479: Lesson 4 – Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
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478: Lesson 3 – Embrace the Power of Iteration
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477: Lesson 2 – Act “As If”
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476: Lesson 1 – Jump First, Build After
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Welcome to DIY MFA Radio, where I do a deep dive into the writing life as well as the craft and business of writing. Today’s episode kicks off our series: Ten Lessons from Ten Years of Podcasting. This is Lesson 1 – Jump First, Build After. Have you gotten the DIY MFA Starter Kit yet? This is a two week email series full of worksheets to help you DIY your MFA, so you can get the “knowledge without the college.” You’ll learn more about how to write with focus, read with purpose, and build your community. You’ll also receive Writer Fuel, our newsletter full of words of wisdom and...
info_outlineToday, Lori is interviewing Donnaldson Brown. They’ll be talking about Because I Loved You, and about how her background in screenwriting has influenced her prose.
Donnaldson 's debut novel, Because I Loved You, is due out in April 2023 with She Writes Press. An attorney and former screenwriter, she worked with Robert Redford’s film development company for several years. Her spoken word pieces have been featured in The Deep Listening Institute’s Writers in Performance and Women & Identity Festivals, and in the Made in the Berkshires Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She’s been awarded several residencies.
A longtime resident of both Brooklyn, New York and western Massachusetts, Ms. Brown grew up riding horses on a family ranch in East Texas as well as in her native Connecticut. She is a facilitator and trainer with The Equus Effect, offering somatic based experiential learning with horses for veterans, first responders and others struggling with ptsd, and is also certified to teach meditation and several forms of yoga.
She is a proud mother, and loves to sing, cycle, and hike with her dogs.
You can find her on her website or follow her on Facebook and Instagram.
In this episode Donnaldson and Lori discuss:
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The impact of secrets on multiple generations.
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Starting a project with an image and painting it into prose.
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Directing a reader’s imagination through clues and cues.
Plus, her #1 tip for writers.
For more info and show notes: diymfa.com/458