My podcast this week is from the Writing Secrets book. (I think this is the last secret, but we will see.) Enjoy!
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The Podcast:
The Transcript:
This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for March 27, 2026, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.
This is from the upcoming Writing Secrets book.
Successful writers—fiction or nonfiction—often continue to struggle with their craft. I certainly do!
The more I write and publish, the more I learn what works for me. The biggest thing I learned this week is that practice helps me see how to make my writing sound cleaner and crisper.
But that learning is not free. The more we choose to learn, the more we need to practice.
This feels exactly like programming felt to me when I was in college, and later, as I learned new programming languages. Practice is the point because it helps us learn.
The Video:
Here is the video link.