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Two Writers, No Hook · Wednesday · 43 min

Self-doubt

Recorded 2026-06-03 This episode we managed to limit our usual weather update to 36 seconds. I update progress, which is "not much," and talk about attending WisCon and the impact it had on my work. In terms of actual progress, I'm still putting in my last round of minor edits in and dealing with moving from theory to practice for my developmental edit. Michael has written over 1800 words in two short stories and has gotten one chapter edited. Goals: Michael: 5 chapters edited and "write a little". Me: Get into the dev edit. Do some critiques. We discuss the wisdom of doing critique work and about the similarity in writing courses. Self-doubt: I talk about recovering from doubt by returning to the desire to finish a story I like, how my relationship to fun is finishing something and putting it out for the world to see. Michael has fun with the creative process of writing, but finds the editing and submission aspects to be work, and not fun. We talk about formulaic writing, writing to hit the beats in your chosen genre. which Michael finds challenging. We compare writing to software and other types of work. Next week: character development.

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Recorded 2026-06-03

This episode we managed to limit our usual weather update to 36 seconds.

I update progress, which is "not much," and talk about attending WisCon and the impact it had on my work. In terms of actual progress, I'm still putting in my last round of minor edits in and dealing with moving from theory to practice for my developmental edit. Michael has written over 1800 words in two short stories and has gotten one chapter edited.

Goals: Michael: 5 chapters edited and "write a little". Me: Get into the dev edit. Do some critiques. We discuss the wisdom of doing critique work and about the similarity in writing courses.

Self-doubt: I talk about recovering from doubt by returning to the desire to finish a story I like, how my relationship to fun is finishing something and putting it out for the world to see. Michael has fun with the creative process of writing, but finds the editing and submission aspects to be work, and not fun.

We talk about formulaic writing, writing to hit the beats in your chosen genre. which Michael finds challenging. We compare writing to software and other types of work.

Next week: character development.

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