Slush Pile Workshop #17
Thursday, July 14, 2011
With Writing Show host Paula B.
This podcast series is designed to help you practice capturing readers’ attention. Inspired by literary agent Kristin Nelson’s two-page pitch sessions, Writing Show host Paula B. will play agent and comment on your anonymous submissions on the show.
Host: Paula B.
Date: July 14, 2011
Running time: 01:03:47
File size: 30 megabytes
Rating: G
Slush Pile Workshop #16
Monday, June 27, 2011
With Writing Show host Paula B.
This podcast series is designed to help you practice capturing readers’ attention. Inspired by literary agent Kristin Nelson’s two-page pitch sessions, Writing Show host Paula B. will play agent and comment on your anonymous submissions on the show.
Host: Paula B.
Date: June 27, 2011
Running time: 48:43
File size: 23 megabytes
Rating: G
Slush Pile Workshop #15
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
With Writing Show host Paula B.
This podcast series is designed to help you practice capturing readers’ attention. Inspired by literary agent Kristin Nelson’s two-page pitch sessions, Writing Show host Paula B. will play agent and comment on your anonymous submissions on the show.
Host: Paula B.
Date: June 7, 2011
Running time: 43:41
File size: 21 megabytes
Rating: PG (swearing)
Slush Pile Workshop #14
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
With Writing Show host Paula B.
This podcast series is designed to help you practice capturing readers’ attention. Inspired by literary agent Kristin Nelson’s two-page pitch sessions, Writing Show host Paula B. will play agent and comment on your anonymous submissions on the show.
Host: Paula B.
Date: May 18, 2011
Running time: 44:49
File size: 21 megabytes
Rating: PG (minor swearing)
Slush Pile Workshop #13
Sunday, April 24, 2011
With Writing Show host Paula B.
This podcast series is designed to help you practice capturing readers’ attention. Inspired by literary agent Kristin Nelson’s two-page pitch sessions, Writing Show host Paula B. will play agent and comment on your anonymous submissions on the show.
Host: Paula B.
Date: April 24, 2011
Running time: 43:55
File size: 21 megabytes
Rating: G
Slush Pile Workshop #12
Friday, April 15, 2011
With Writing Show host Paula B.
This podcast series is designed to help you practice capturing readers’ attention. Inspired by literary agent Kristin Nelson’s two-page pitch sessions, Writing Show host Paula B. will play agent and comment on your anonymous submissions on the show.
Host: Paula B.
Date: April 2011
Running time: 52:57
File size: 25 megabytes
Rating: G
Slush Pile Workshop #11
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
With Writing Show host Paula B.
This podcast series is designed to help you practice capturing readers’ attention. Inspired by literary agent Kristin Nelson’s two-page pitch sessions, Writing Show host Paula B. will play agent and comment on your anonymous submissions on the show.
Host: Paula B.
Date: March 15, 2011
Running time: 51:32
File size: 25 megabytes
Rating: G
Slush Pile Workshop #10
Sunday, February 13, 2011
With Writing Show host Paula B.
This podcast series is designed to help you practice capturing readers' attention. Inspired by literary agent Kristin Nelson’s two-page pitch sessions, Writing Show host Paula B. will play agent and comment on your anonymous submissions on the show.
Host: Paula B.
Date: February 13, 2011
Running time: 42:54
File size: 21 megabytes
Rating: PG (violence)
Slush Pile Workshop #9
Sunday, January 16, 2011
With Writing Show host Paula B.
Our series is designed to help you practice capturing readers' attention. Inspired by literary agent Kristin Nelson’s two-page pitch sessions, Writing Show host Paula B. will play agent and comment on your anonymous submissions on the show.
Host: Paula B.
Date: January 16, 2011
Running time: 59:53
File size: 29 megabytes
Rating: PG (violence)
Download and listen to "Slush Pile Workshop #9"
New article on the writer's voice now available
Thursday, July 14, 2011
My new article, "The Writer's Voice in Fiction: What It Is and How to Develop Yours," is now available at the Amazon Kindle store for 99 cents:
Love the slush pile workshops? Now they're available as an ebook!
Available in PDF at Lulu.com for $2.99.
Paula B. brings her popular slush pile workshops to text. For this first volume in the series, Paula selected 13 first chapters and one short story from our audio slush pile workshops and expanded on her audio comments.
Also at the Kindle store:
Story consulting from Paula B.
Are you having trouble writing your story? Getting nowhere with agents? Writing Show host Paula B. helps writers get unstuck. Time to break through that barrier and make your dreams come true. Details here.
"I would recommend Paula to anyone (and have been), and will be calling upon her often in the years to come. Here’s to you, Paula!"
--Marty Young - Australian Horror Writers Association Founding President, 2005-2010
"It's not always easy working with writers; the egos, the authorial control, the tightly defined visions of our stories. Paula has the special kind of patience and knowledge that is required for the task."
-- Mayowa Atte
The Writing Show is now all slush pile workshops
How to participate (it's free!)...
The Writing Show Slush Pile Workshop is designed to help you practice engaging readers. In each workshop podcast, Paula B. plays agent and comments on your anonymous submissions. Does she want to see more, or does she lose interest?
We’re sure you know how important it is to hook a prospective agent or publisher in your first couple of pages. But if you send your work out before it’s ready, you could squander an important opportunity. Don’t risk it. Try your material out on us first—for free!
Submissions selected for the show will be available to read from our site at WritingShow.com.
We know how hard it is to put your work out there, so we want to stress that all pitches will be anonymous! (We must know who you are because we need a disclaimer from you, but we won’t divulge your identity.)
Listen to our slush pile workshops:
Download and listen to "Slush Pile Workshop #1"
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Download and listen to "Slush Pile Workshop #9"
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Download and listen to "Slush Pile Workshop #11"
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Download and listen to "Slush Pile Workshop #13"
Download and listen to "Slush Pile Workshop #14"
Download and listen to "Slush Pile Workshop #15"
Download and listen to "Slush Pile Workshop #16"
Download and listen to "Slush Pile Workshop #17"
New Kindle article from Paula B.
Writing Show host Paula B. has published a new article at the Amazon Kindle store: "How to Use Third Person Narration to Hook Readers and Keep Them Engaged." Ten pages, 99 cents.
The article is part of Paula's new series, Paula B's Writing Fiction Secrets.
Watch for more articles in this new series!
Paula's Self-Mentoring Checklist for Novelists available at the Amazon Kindle store for 99 cents! Check out my Writing Dialogue series too. Five articles for $3.99. Such a deal.
A Book Every Screenwriter Should Read
Former Hollywood agent Michele Wallerstein has written a must-read book called Mind Your Business: A Hollywood Literary Agent's Guide to Your Writing Career.
All aspiring screenwriters—actually, all screenwriters, whether aspiring or working—should read this book. According to the author, who should certainly know what she’s talking about after 25 years as a Hollywood agent, even skilled, successful writers can unwittingly sabotage their careers if they behave badly. Even though it should be a given that you dress, pitch, and treat studio executives in certain ways, apparently many screenwriters don’t understand that if you don’t obey these “rules,” you can derail your career. Michele Wallerstein cites example after example of former clients who were riding high, but got greedy, sloppy, or just plain arrogant, and flamed out. Fortunately, she also explains what you should do to keep your career on track, and it’s not rocket science.
You don’t get this kind of information from other books about screenwriting. Sure, story, character and structure matter. But those things mean nothing unless you understand how Hollywood works. Read this book and follow Michele’s advice to the letter, and you will be gold in this town. Ignore it, and you’ll be better off studying accounting.
Michele, who is now a screenplay, novel, and career consultant, will be appearing on The Writing Show in October. Her Web site is novelconsultant.com.
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