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2025.39 Fantasy Short Story Excerpt

My podcast this week is an excerpt from a fantasy short story. I will finish it today, mostly because it’s due! Yes, I’m traveling. Yes, I agree, I look terrible. Too bad. I meet my deadlines. I promised you a (mostly) weekly peek into my writing. You get it. (I expect to miss next week’s […]

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2025.38 Spy Excerpt

This week’s podcast is an excerpt from a romantic suspense spy story. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for October 24, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This is part of an espionage, spy, short story.

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2025.37 Romantic Suspense Opening

This week’s podcast is from the opening of a romantic suspense short story. Enjoy! (Update on Monday: I forgot to publish this because I was so focused on finishing the story!) The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for October 17, 2025, where I read an excerpt

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2025.36 Portal Fantasy Short Story Opening

This week, my podcast is the opening of a short story, a portal fantasy. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for October 10, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This is the opening of a (hopefully)

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2025.34 Black Boxes on a Virtual Presentation

This week’s podcast is from the Effective Public Speaking book. The cover people are working on a back cover, which means I’m close, close, close to the end of the publication work. Yay! The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for September 19, 2025, where I read

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2025.32 Offer More Examples

This week, the podcast is from the Effective Public Speaking book. I am in the midst of the final proofing before I go to print. (Thank goodness!) Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for September 4, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a

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2025.31 Impostor Syndrome Can Create Your Fear

This week’s podcast is from the Effective Public Speaking book. I finished the index and am about to get the various print layouts ready. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for August 29, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some

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2025.30 Experience Reports Use Nested Stories

Today’s podcast is from the Effective Public Speaking book. I am deep into the indexing. Yes, this is part of the finishing that makes me somewhat nutso. That’s okay. I have promised myself a delightful beverage tonight, as long as I finish it today. (To be honest, I will have a delightful beverage whenever I

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2025.29 Anonymize People in Your Stories

This week’s podcast is from the Effective Public Speaking book. A funny thing happened on the way to the podcast. I’ve been heads-down, proofing and finishing the book. I plan to start the index today. That’s all finishing the book. I hate this part, but if I don’t do it, I can’t publish the book.

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2025.28 Offer Value to the Audience

This week’s podcast is from Effective Public Speaking. I need to finish proofing the book before I add the index. That will tell me how large the cover dimensions need to be, and I can continue. These are all the little details I just can’t stand, but I need to do them. Enjoy! The Podcast:

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