Join award-winning novelist and writing coach Michelle Hoover and special guests for your morning writing wake up call, starting with a 50-day writing challenge. 7amnovelist.substack.com
Bonus! Mary Carroll Moore: Jumping Genres, Where to Begin, and Separating Your Character From Yourself
32 mins; January 27, 2024
Structuring Multiple POVS & Timelines (or maybe not?) with Mark Cecil and Jane Roper
42 mins; January 26, 2024
Writing a Series and What "Close" Really Means for POV with Hank Phillippi Ryan and Allison Amend
40 mins; January 25, 2024
Defining and Accessing Interiority with Dawn Tripp and Christopher Boucher
39 mins; January 24, 2024
Revision: Breaking Down Your Book to Build it Back Up with Hesse Phillips and Sara Johnson Allen
45 mins; January 23, 2024
Climaxes and Endings with Colwill Brown and Crystal King
44 mins; January 22, 2024
Bonus! Process Over Product with Writer Cathy Elcik
26 mins; January 20, 2024
The Time it Takes & What is Done? with Kasey LeBlanc, Shalene Gupta, and Sara Shukla.
36 mins; January 19, 2024
Cutting and Querying Advice with Nancy Crochiere, Henriette Lazaridis, and Ethan Gilsdorf
43 mins; January 18, 2024
Finding a Writing Community and Different Motivation Types with Jessica Bird and Henriette Lazaridis
40 mins; January 17, 2024
When to Break Up with Your Book with Emily Ross and Virginia Pye
42 mins; January 16, 2024
Jealousy and Exhaustion with Marjan Kamali, Liesl Swogger, and Alex Ferraro
37 mins; January 15, 2024
Bonus! Michael Giddings: What to Do When Your Fictional World Gets Too Big for You
30 mins; January 13, 2024
How to Find Writing Space with Sara Johnson Allen, Cara Wood, and Joanna Rakoff
43 mins; January 12, 2024
Trusting Yourself and Your Writing with Hesse Phillips and Ron MacLean
38 mins; January 11, 2024
Is the Agent Wrong or Do You Need a Style Check? Or Both? with Jessica Bird, Kathleen Flynn, and Andrea Meyer
39 mins; January 10, 2024
The Great Research Rabbit Hole with Lauren Aguirre and Anjali Mitter Duva
42 mins; January 09, 2024
How The Novel Complicates Character Development with Christine Murphy, Emily Ross, and Joanna Rakoff
46 mins; January 08, 2024
Bonus! Aube Rey Lescure: The Existential Crisis of Launching Your Debut Novel
32 mins; January 06, 2024
Starting Your Second Book with Christine Murphy, Kasey LeBlanc, and Aaron Hamburger
39 mins; January 05, 2024
Dealing with Uncertainty with Timothy Deer and Hesse Phillips
35 mins; January 04, 2024
Writer Boredom & the Dread of Finishing with Sara Shukla and Nancy Crochiere
35 mins; January 03, 2024
Submission Anxiety & Character Development with Liesl Swogger and Kathleen Flynn
39 mins; January 02, 2024
Bonus! Spitballing with Michael Lowenthal
32 mins; January 01, 2024
NEXT: What's Holding You Back? January Writing Challenge
1 min; December 01, 2023
Bonus Episode: Yael Goldstein-Love on The Possibilities
28 mins; September 15, 2023
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on the essay “Futurity”
36 mins; September 11, 2023
Carter Sickles on The Prettiest Star
30 mins; September 08, 2023
Caroline Leavitt on Days of Wonder
30 mins; September 06, 2023
David Heska Wanbli Weiden on Winter Counts
35 mins; September 04, 2023
Shilpi Suneja on House of Caravans
32 mins; September 01, 2023
Isa Arsén on Shoot the Moon
33 mins; August 30, 2023
Virginia Pye on The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann
44 mins; August 28, 2023
Charlotte Rixon on The One That Got Away
30 mins; August 25, 2023
Angel Di Zhang on The Light of Eternal Spring
34 mins; August 23, 2023
Rachel Kadish on The Weight of Ink
31 mins; August 21, 2023
Paul Rudnick on Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
36 mins; August 18, 2023
Julie Gerstenblatt on Daughters of Nantucket
33 mins; August 16, 2023
Sara Johnson Allen on Down Here We Come Up
37 mins; August 14, 2023
Alyssa Songsiridej on Little Rabbit
29 mins; August 11, 2023
Elizabeth L. Silver on The Majority
37 mins; August 09, 2023
Nancy Crochiere on Graceland
33 mins; August 07, 2023
Hank Phillippi Ryan on The House Guest
36 mins; August 04, 2023
Jessica Keener on Night Swim
29 mins; August 02, 2023
Neema Avashia on Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
36 mins; July 31, 2023
Suzanne Berne on The Blue Window
31 mins; July 28, 2023
Alta Ifland on Speaking to No. 4
26 mins; July 26, 2023
Kelly J. Ford on The Hunt
34 mins; July 24, 2023
Allegra Goodman on Sam
23 mins; July 21, 2023
EB Moore on Loose in the Bright Fantastic
29 mins; July 19, 2023
Kirthana Ramisetti on Advika and the Hollywood Wives
30 mins; July 17, 2023
Maya Shanbhag Lang on What We Carry
31 mins; July 14, 2023
Alix Ohlin on Dual Citizens
28 mins; July 12, 2023
Rachel Barenbaum on Atomic Anna
30 mins; July 10, 2023
Meg Waite Clayton on The Postmistress of Paris
32 mins; July 07, 2023
Joanna Rakoff on My Salinger Year
32 mins; July 05, 2023
Aaron Hamburger on Hotel Cuba
34 mins; July 03, 2023
Idra Novey on Take What You Need
34 mins; June 30, 2023
Wanda Morris on Anywhere You Run
31 mins; June 28, 2023
Daphne Kalotay discusses "Relativity" in her collection The Archivists
30 mins; June 26, 2023
BA Shapiro on Metropolis
31 mins; June 23, 2023
Frances de Pontes Peebles on The Air You Breathe
32 mins; June 21, 2023
Henriette Lazaridis on Terra Nova
32 mins; June 19, 2023
Amina Gautier on "Lost and Found" from her collection The Loss of All Things
33 mins; June 16, 2023
Julie Carrick Dalton on The Last Beekeeper
26 mins; June 14, 2023
Jasmin Hakes on Hula
29 mins; June 12, 2023
VV Ganeshananthan on Brotherless Night
30 mins; June 09, 2023
Juliette Fay on The Half of It
29 mins; June 07, 2023
Nathaniel Ian Miller on The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
29 mins; June 05, 2023
Jane Roper on The Society of Shame
29 mins; June 02, 2023
Marisa Crane on I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
33 mins; May 31, 2023
Vanessa Hua on Forbidden City
27 mins; May 29, 2023
Elizabeth Graver on Kantika
30 mins; May 25, 2023
What's Next: Passages of Summer—Starting May 25
1 min; May 18, 2023
Day 31: The Shadowscape: How Darkness Plays with Light in Fiction & in Life with Lara Wilson
31 mins; March 31, 2023
Day 30: The Authors Journeys of E.B. Moore & Donna Gordon: It’s Never Too Late
29 mins; March 30, 2023
Day 29: Building Tension & Dread in Thrillers with Erica Ferencik
30 mins; March 29, 2023
Day 28: Research How-Tos with Lara Prescott & Crystal King
33 mins; March 28, 2023
Day 27: Aspects of Autofiction with Shuchi Saraswat & Stacy Mattingly
29 mins; March 27, 2023
Day 26: Crafting a Scene with Patricia Park
25 mins; March 26, 2023
Day 25: Writing in (and about) Gardens with Margo Rabb
32 mins; March 25, 2023
Day 24: Building Believable Antagonists with Randy Susan Meyers
30 mins; March 24, 2023
Day 23: What Playwriting Can Do for Your Prose with Sari Boren
29 mins; March 23, 2023
Day 22: Authors Journey: The Great Uncertainty with Dawn Tripp & Jane Roper
30 mins; March 22, 2023
Day 21: Shalene Gupta & E.B. Bartels on How to Conduct Interviews & Blend Personal Stories with your Research
32 mins; March 21, 2023
Day 20: Authors Journey: All You Have to Do Is Not Give Up with David Abrams & Ilan Mochari
30 mins; March 20, 2023
Day 19: Finding Balance (& Writer Moxie) w Jenna Blum
34 mins; March 19, 2023
Day 18: Developing a Socio-Cultural Context with Dariel Suarez
30 mins; March 18, 2023
Day 17: Reality & Invention in Fiction & Nonfiction with Alysia Abbott & Lise Haines
30 mins; March 17, 2023
Day 16: Authors Journey: Getting to Yes with Rita Woods & Nancy Crochiere
33 mins; March 16, 2023
Day 15: Horror Film Techniques That Make Us Better Writers with Devi Snively
31 mins; March 15, 2023
Day 14: Solving Literary Problems with Non-Literary Forms with Henriette Lazaridis
30 mins; March 14, 2023
Day 13: Escaping the Muddle in the Middle with Hank Phillippi Ryan
34 mins; March 13, 2023
Day 12: Getting & Giving Feedback with Daphne Kalotay and Margot Livesey
27 mins; March 12, 2023
Day 11: Joy First Drafting with AE Osworth
31 mins; March 11, 2023
Day 10: Overcoming 'Not Writing' with Stephanie Gayle
30 mins; March 10, 2023
Day 9: Getting Your Reader to Root for Your Protagonist with Katherine Sherbrooke
33 mins; March 09, 2023
Day 8: Author's Journey: From Writer to Publisher with Anjali Mitter Duva
30 mins; March 08, 2023
Day 7: Creating Characters Based on Real People with Hesse Phillips and Chris Boucher
29 mins; March 07, 2023
Day 6: Emily Ross & Desmond Hall—Navigating YA and Adult
